Carpenter Hill Orchard and Vineyard

Artist Statement:

      "My art has consistently revolved around giving solid form to ideas and emotions. I look to the natural world for images symbolic of thoughts and emotions to further my understanding of myself, communicate with my viewers, and explore how art at once creates and comments on contemporary culture.

      "I am particularly drawn to the natural stone and rock formations found along the coastlines, and discovered while hiking in wild areas and the occasional quarried stones found at landscape supply yards. Rocks in general speak of the history of the earth and take on characteristics unique to their individual areas due to geologic changes and their composite make up. Their shapes and demeanor often mimic animal forms giving them a feeling of life within that radiates out as their presence dominates the landscape.

      "There are many myths and stories throughout the world’s early cultures that reflect this shared sense of the innate life locked within, they also tell stories of life turned to stone, and stone attributes taken on by

      "The marble sculpture by Italian sculptor extraordinaire, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, interpreting the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo adds an appealing twist.
Encased in marble are Apollo and Daphne captured at the very moment of their metamorphosis.

      "My paintings here in the Art About Agriculture exhibition allude to rocks as the foundation of Carpenter Hill, and their mineral content required for the growing of healthy plants. Rocks are a constant reminder of the long history of the natural world and its resilience."

                        Katy Cauker, 2020