Metal Art Wall Sculptures Metal Art Weavings Copper Embossings
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| Wavy Weaving - 3 circles 22" x 28" call for pricing |
Folded Wavy Weaving copper with flame colors 14" x 28" |
Open Straight Weaving Copper with brass & fire colors 24" x 36" |
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
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| Aluminum Rectangles on Side 72" wide x 42" high x 4" deep |
Aluminum Rotating Triangle 55" per side x 8" deep |
"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation." - Charles Baudelaire
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| Undulated Woven Circle Copper with brass and fire patina 40" H x 48" W x 2" D |
Open Straight Weaving 20.5" x 50" copper with brass and fire colors |
Open Wavy Weaving 30" x 48" copper with flame colors |
"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
- Alexander Calder
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| Pasiphae Embossing on Copper 10" x 12" 20" x 24" with frame |
Hand
embossed copper - "Pocahontas" is portrayed in this
beautiful hand-made copper piece. Elegant matting & frame Framed size: 20" x 24" $450 SOLD -- other embossings are available |
Hand
embossed copper nude. Hand made mat
& black frame.
Framed size: 20" x 24" $450 SOLD --can be special ordered |
John calls his artwork "Music for the
Eyes" because, like music (music without words), most of his artwork does
not have an obvious contextual reference. John's artwork is designed to
simultaneously soothe and stimulate the viewer, inviting the viewer to step out
of his world and relax and reframe his vision of himself and his life. He is not
particularly interested in endowing his pieces with meaning or stories. He
prefers that they be experienced for themselves as themselves. John thinks of
them as being meditation pieces, transporting the viewer beyond the limited
scope of the mental sphere.
Copper has a number of unique qualities that fascinate him. With flame and chemicals, a wide range of beautiful patinas can be achieved. As a soft metal, it can be bent and shaped with ease, or it can be transformed into a hard metal with hammering. It can be glued to wood and made rigid, and then cut into forms that can be stacked and arranged. It can also be turned on a lathe, melted and cast, stamped in a die and various other techniques he has yet to try.
You will have noticed that all of John's artwork has an interplay of wild abandon within great structure and control. This is what many great artists do. The ballet dancers rehearse and rehearse their technique and then, during their performance, release themselves with wild abandon within the structure of those carefully choreographed moves. That's why we say that certain dancers are 'flying'. The jazz musician practices his improvisations prior to the performance, but it is his wild abandon within that pre-planned expression that thrills us. John's designs may appear to be pure wild abandon, but they are made within the structure of carefully controlled technique and endless pre-planning. He gets the greatest delight from working with both sides of his brain simultaneously and then infusing passion into the mix.
Sources of inspiration for Searles include Nature, mathematics, the paintings of Paul Jenkins and Jackson Pollack, the teachings of Zen Buddhism, Eckankar and the Sufi mystics, the Landmark Education programs, much of the body of modern glass art, geological patterns in rocks and minerals, Hubble telescope photographs, the polarized light microphotographs of crystals by Roman Vishniac and Howard Garrett, turbulence patterns in water and smoke and the magical colors dancing on the surface of soap bubbles.