"Natural beauty is the fundamental inspiration for my work. Finding a harmony between curved shapes and angular lines. It's about nature and manmade, feelings and thoughts, emotion and logic, girls and boys, forgiveness and sin, clouds of joy, peace, love, eternal bliss and the downward spiral of despair, hate, anger, misery, hellfire -
it's about paper or plastic bags at the grocery store."

Under The Influence

HT	Color of Black	Pink Ripple Sunset
Cloud and Black Box Days of Wine and Rosewood
Waterfall Woman	Spotty Box	Indian Maiden
Bridge Peacemaker Savior Survivor Child
Good Boxes Don't Frown	Teach Me To Fish	Flight
	Claire and Katie were raised watching their father make intricate inlay pieces.  It is only to be expected that they wanted to try their hand at creating their own works of art.  Using their fathers’ skill to make the pieces for inlay, they added their own creative spin to what their father was producing.  Chris is quite pleased with their interest and creativity.
Collateral by Katie Cantwell		Sneaky Fish by Claire Cantwell
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