The wall slated to become a driftwood mosaicįortunately I was able to work with a local master carpenter named Matt Hood, who had created wonderful wall compositions and trims in the room using recycled timber salvaged from demolished structures all over the South Island. After doing a fair amount of searching on the internet I came to the conclusion that this might end up being the largest of its kind in the world! A good place to start.
I was a little taken aback by the scale of this concept, as I had never built a driftwood mosaic before. The wall is 2 stories high and faces the Humboldt mountain range across the lake, seen through two sets of glass doors and a window centered in the gable. The photo I showed to my client inspired her to propose that I build an ambitious wall mosaic of driftwood in the Humboldt Room of the camp's lodge. I began collecting interesting pieces in my compulsive way for adorning the rather forlorn area around the Caravan trailer I lived in behind the general store. On the shores of Lake Wakatipu in the area where I was working you can find wonderful specimens of driftwood, waterworn knarls of roots, trunks, branches, and burls. Turns out I'd be following in his footsteps.Ī stone and driftwood mosaic by Lew French While he works primarily with stone, he sometimes incorporated driftwood in to his mosaics. My Mother gave me a copy of his beautiful book, Stone by Design for Christmas. I built a garden in Chilmark on the Vineyard for actors Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub and was able to see some of Lew French's fantastic work. I spent 6 months, starting in November of 2016, and then returned the following November for another 6 months.Īn article about Camp Glenorchy in Mindfood MagazineĮarly on I showed my client a photo of a driftwood mosaic built by an amazing stone artist named Lew French, from Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. This was followed seven years later by the commission of the Halls Hill Labyrinth:Ī couple of years after completing the Labyrinth I was brought to New Zealand to work on Camp Glenorchy. Camp Glenorchy is the philanthropic endeavor of an American couple who I had worked for at the Islandwood School several years ago: The main focus of my involvement with the Camp was the Braided Rivers Project. I normally work with stone and plants, building gardens and mosaics.
The area is one of spectacular beauty, which was the primary inspiration for the things that I built there.ĭriftwood washed up on the shore of Lake Wakatipu at 25 Mile Creek This is another essay about one of the many projects I worked on while I was at Camp Glenorchy, north of Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand. A section of the Driftwood Wall mosaic in the Humboldt Room of the Homestead Building at Camp Glenorchy
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