Artist: Dave MacDonald | Location: Gerton, NC
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Artist: Dave MacDonald | Location: Gerton, NC
Gerton, NC
I live and work in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I was exposed to artistic blacksmithing in the early 1990's and fell into a love/hate relationship with this alchemical process. Metal has been my chosen medium since them.
I divide my time between my practices as an artist and as a psychotherapist. Both professions deeply inform each other.
My artwork is an attempt to reflect the integration of these two worlds and so is infused with psychological themes of struggle, survival, despair and hope.
My basic process involves heating metal in a fire and forming it by hand employing the tools and techniques used by Blacksmiths for thousands of years: Forge, Hammer and Anvil. My work is hand finished. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.
Artist Website
http://www.macdonaldforge.com