Wyldling, felted Merino wool, copper, wood, 19" x 15" x 7"

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Underlying Barbara Attwell's work is the search for ways that all things wild - clouds, mountains, otters, ourselves - are connected in a delicious and fierce beauty. She wants to reawaken the singularity we have lost with this powerful undercurrent. In today's culture, alienation and a peculiar poverty of soul are the result of spending more time controlling nature than knowing it. We need to summon our primordial self - the one who stomps on the ground to bring rain, lays down with ear to the dirt to listen for underground rivers, and introduces themselves to trees, knowing that they respond.

Adding to Attwell's successful career as both painter and sculptor is experience in the field of environmentalism, and thus a rich and intensive knowledge of nature informs her art.

Her current works center on the wisdom, beauty, and plight of wild things, and paths back to our wild, holy home. Attwell began with a scholarship to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts from the 4th through 12th grades, followed with a BFA Cum Laude from the University of Texas. Her extensive career includes numerous shows and awards, and her work unfolds in many formats - habitat sculptures, endangered species paintings, graphic design, funerary urns, and felted works.