Patrick Dougherty

Don't know what this one is called but it's beautiful and I wanted to include it.

Above is 'Toad Hall' 2005 at Santa Barbara Botanical Garden, California.

Below is 'Childhood Dreams' 2007

The birds arround us are getting all twittery and excited and though it is cold and snowy, you know that they are begining to think of nesting and spring.

Patrick Doughertys work seems the perfect choice when thinking of nesting.

Patrick uses traditional weaving methods but on a monumental scale and like most landscape and environmental artists he uses, where possible, materials found on site. During the last decade Patrick Dougherty has built over 100 works throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. http://www.stickwork.net/