Ray Hammer
BLUE COLLAR ARTWORK
Metal sculptor Ray Hammer doesn’t view the world in the same way as most people. In his artistic vision, a discarded crescent wrench takes on a new life as a one-of-a-kind latch, rock screens morph into decorative panels and cone liners are reborn as bells. Retired clutch plates are things of beauty, old pipes become arbors for new vines and fiberoptic crystals are reborn as jewels in a garden gate.
Hammer designs and fabricates beautiful and functional art and architectural pieces from recycled metal, plastic and glass. Although he has been creating unique ART PIECES IN HIS Sequim studio for little more than a year, his entire life is a study in rugged individualism.
Hammer grew up in Parma, Idaho, on a dairy farm that was 100-percent self-sustaining. Nothing, he says was ever purchased from outside and by age 18, he was ready to leave and make his way in the world. Over the course of the next few years, he began three different businesses: roofing, demolition, and exercise consulting. He put himself through college, studied exercise physiology and obtained a degree in counseling.
(From an article in Living on the Peninsula/Winter 2011 by Kelly McKillip)
Metal sculptor Ray Hammer doesn’t view the world in the same way as most people. In his artistic vision, a discarded crescent wrench takes on a new life as a one-of-a-kind latch, rock screens morph into decorative panels and cone liners are reborn as bells. Retired clutch plates are things of beauty, old pipes become arbors for new vines and fiberoptic crystals are reborn as jewels in a garden gate.
Hammer designs and fabricates beautiful and functional art and architectural pieces from recycled metal, plastic and glass. Although he has been creating unique ART PIECES IN HIS Sequim studio for little more than a year, his entire life is a study in rugged individualism.
Hammer grew up in Parma, Idaho, on a dairy farm that was 100-percent self-sustaining. Nothing, he says was ever purchased from outside and by age 18, he was ready to leave and make his way in the world. Over the course of the next few years, he began three different businesses: roofing, demolition, and exercise consulting. He put himself through college, studied exercise physiology and obtained a degree in counseling.
(From an article in Living on the Peninsula/Winter 2011 by Kelly McKillip)
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