Creemore artist David Bruce Johnson is working to a smaller scale, creating a number of new miniature sculptures for a show at the Mad and Noisy Gallery.
Johnson will share the gallery with world-renowned oil painter Pauline Bradshaw, who has had a painting displayed at The Louvre in Paris, in a show called Opposites Attract.
Johnson, an award winning woodcarver, normally works to a larger scale but he has been creating miniatures to offset Bradshaw’s large-scale paintings.
“The biggest difference,” said Johnson, “Is that a small mistake on something small is huge. It requires more care and there is no room for error.”
Using manual and power tools and working in wood and stone, Johnson has carved a number of birds-of-prey and other animals, many are hand-painted. The show will feature “On the Edge” depicting a polar bear on the edge of an ice formation, which was shown at the Artists for Conservation Festival in Vancouver in 2015 and a tree frog called “Nature’s Gem” which he carved in 2013. Some of his pieces make an environmental statement.
Johnson has been sculpting wood since 1987.
The show opens Saturday, May 13, with an opening reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.