| Artist Info |
| Name:
Dan
West |
| Town
of residence: Friendship,
Maine |
Brief
Bio:
Nathaniel E. (Dan) West creates simple, pure forms working
with natural or found materials that suggest animals.
Since his childhood years on Martha's Vineyard he has
studied wildlife wherever he found it: in the woods,
marshes, backwaters or open water from the Vineyard
up the coast to Nova Scotia. Beginning in the late eighties,
he and his wife Kyra spent twelve summers in Lunenburg,
Nova Scotia, where he was profoundly inspired by wild
coastal habitats, fish and saltwater birds. In 2000
they moved to the Maine coast at Friendship, where he
collects driftwood and other seaborne objects on the
islands of Muscongus Bay. Every fall he and Kyra visit
Advocate, N.S., on the Bay of Fundy to collect driftwood
on its three mile barrier beach.
Dan has had several careers prior to devoting full time
to his artwork. Following active duty in the Navy in
the late sixties he taught English at South Kent School
in Connecticut, then served as business manager at the
Vineyard Gazette, after which he owned and operated
Machine & Marine Inc. in Vineyard Haven for fourteen
years. He sold his business in 1988 but continued building
the well-known Tashmoo skiffs for a time; after taking
a couple of years to restore a 1740s farmhouse in Chilmark
he returned to boat building, designing and producing
a Greenland-style sea kayak.
Dan's work has been represented at the Houston North
Gallery, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and in Maine at The
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport; Calderwood
Hall, North Haven Island; the Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset,
and the Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport.
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| Website:
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Represented
by:
He is a gallery artist at the Granary Gallery, Martha's
Vineyard, and the Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine.
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| Description of Art Work |
| Dimensions:
27"
x 5" x 3" |
| Medium
Used: mixed
media |
| Title:
"Oar
Blade Mackerel" |
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