This catalogue comes from the first U.S. traveling survey exhibition of the work of David Nash, one of Britain's leading sculptors who makes his pieces from wood. Many of David Nash's exhibitions - he has had hundreds of solo and group exhibitions throughout the world - are formed from work he has made in the general location of the museum or art gallery, with local wood. Significant shows of this type have been held in America, Japan and Poland. Nash's sculptures, made from unseasoned wood, alter after his intervention, cracking and twisting as they dry. In harnessing not only the element of air, but also fire and water, Nash changes the form and surface of his sculptures. His first charred works were made in Japan in the early 1980s. The process is almost as ritualistic as it is intense. Charring changes the surface to carbon, which, when treated with preservative and linseed oil, gives the sculptures a longer life in the open air. (Cass Sculpture Foundation)