A coffee table in English sycamore inspired by wild Alaskan rivers.
This low table is made from a rippling and wild-grained piece of English Sycamore which reminded me of the untamed, braided rivers of Alaska.When I had come back from a trip to Alaska I tried to paint these wonderful rivers as seen from the air. They carry the melt water from the mountain glaciers down to the sea, and the silt creates transient islands in the flow and shows up all the currents and wave patterns.
My watercolours were of limited success, but this piece of sycamore had done all the work for me. My only job was to give the table a sense of flow and riverishness. I like the way that the end view imitates the shape of the river bed while adding refinement to the table edges.
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