David Nash

For over forty years, David Nash has made sculpture almost exclusively in wood. At the core of his work is a profound and ever-growing knowledge of trees, enabling Nash to engage with the varying characteristics of each species of wood that he uses. This book focuses particularly on three worksites, referred to by Nash as 'wood quarries', in France, Spain and Japan. On a piece of land not far from his home, Nash has for over thirty years been planting and then coaxing groups of trees to take on forms such as domes and bowl shapes. Also presented here are numerous examples of sculptures dealing with a favourite theme - the universal forms of the cube, the sphere and the pyramid, as well as Nash's highly innovative black sculptures. -- Dust Jacket.