Craig Spankie - “Where Do You Go”

Enamel, Copper, Board 27” W x 24”H Craig Spankie is a lifelong artist. A native New Zealander, Spankie refers to his homeland by its Maori name Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud.  Spankie's creativity became apparent when, as a young man, he began to design and build houses inspired by Aotearoa's verdant landscapes and abundant billowing clouds. Carpentry seeded an affinity for the tactile, and informed an isolated beauty that is Spankie's hallmark.  For Craig Spankie, working with found objects fulfills a quest to create transformative art.  Raw, and by most standards spent, objects are reborn in Spankie's contemplative environmental portraits. Working in mixed media nourishes Spankie's soul.   Now a resident of Wyoming, he continues to be inspired by sublime landscapes and particular materials.  Oxidized copper becomes rich soil; discarded wine foil, crumpled earth.  Spankies' palette suggests vast horizons, red mountains, green pastures, summer crops.  Lone, primal forms, a cro