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Spencer Tinkham

Norfolk, Va.

The sight of trash around the waterways of the

Chesapeake Bay has always irritated Spencer

Tinkham. He decided to pick up as much as he

could find, recycling the plastics but keeping

the wood and metal. Spencer then combined

his passions for woodcarving and conservation

to create sculptures from the found materials.

Spencer carves the bodies of his herons from

wood he took from a collapsed house and makes

the necks and heads from tree branches. He

adds legs made from industrial welding rods,

bases cut from an old pine fishing pier plank, and

cast lead feet made from a handcarved mold.

Spenser painted the herons with oils that he

mixed from scratch in oyster shells using pigment

powders.

See more of Spencer’s work at www.

tinkhamdecoysandfolkart.com.

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