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Three legged arch of carved bricks pays homage to John Coltrane in Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Towering column in Somerset gateway garden. Bricks were carved and altered by the artist, and community participants at local workshops.
This carved brick landscape offers children nooks for play and areas for exploration in outdoor garden setting at the school. Commissioned by Dimensions Early Learning Research Foundation, Lincoln, NE.
This fireplace of carved salt fired bricks is a central feature of this country home in Nashville, NE. Michael designed and built several sculptural installations on this property.
Carved brick modules create a wall sculpture, currently in the collection of the artist, available.
Salt glazed carved brick bench seating here seen on exhibition in a recent show sponsored by InLiquid Gallery.
Patio, wall, railings & gate designed of carved brick and iron, commissioned privately in Lincoln, NE.
Carved brick garden fountain. Fountains on display at Michael’s studio, or can be designed and made for your setting.
Arched garden wall of carved and salt glazed bricks, marble, with wrought iron gate. This wall incorporates planters behind brick retaining walls.
Michael has created many carved brick columns for both public and private garden settings.
Carved brick clock tower, a columnar brick sculpture, commissioned by the New Smyrna Arts Council in New Smyrna Beach, FL
Facade for the entryway of newly constructed police building in Charlotte, NC. Made of carved bricks, salt glazed, many with an iridescent finish.
Seating in park created with brick columns and carved benches, centers around a central planting area. Columns incorporate planters for seasonal flowers.
Carved salt fired brick walls, ceiling, and built-in bench seating for lobby of Blue Barn Theater in Omaha, NE.
Carved brick columns set in upstate park, create a meditative and sensual sculptural landscape.
Carved brick columns and iron fencing top this garden wall surrounding a neighborhood park in Lincoln, NE.
This carved brick sculpture was commissioned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit for the Spring Valley Station.
Carved brick architectural work on country estate in Nashville, NE, complete with circular staircase, lookout windows, and craggily sculpted exterior surfaces.
Carved bricks form a delicate and intriguingly biomorphic interior wall. The bricks are individually carved, salt fired, then joined to create this delicate dividing wall or wall sculpture.
From his fascination with the history of the decaying industrial sites around Wolverhampton, and the many historical sites of his youth in southern England, Michael was long ago drawn to brick as his artistic medium.
Bricks express his love of solidity, structure, and history while they give him a malleable yet durable way to build his utilitarian and semi utilitarian abstract sculptures. Michael’s brick art works range from small carved individual bricks to poetic arches and columns set in bucolic landscapes.
His work always connects with its site to invite us to sit on it, walk in it, peer through it, to somehow interact with brick art. Michael’s work has a striking beauty to it that belies the simplicity of the small carved clay bricks from which it is made.