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A few years ago Peter Hazel was chatting with fellow Burning Man Artist Gregg Adams, “Wouldn’t it be cool to build a forest? Each tree would be built by a different artist…”

Time passed, art was built, and the forest was nearly forgotten. Until now.

Gregg called Peter and said, “Remember the forest?”

“Let’s build it.”

The Lead Artists

Gregg Adams

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Gregg Adams

Gregg’s day job is as a Trauma Surgeon, so making his art is a necessary task for regrounding and creation in a world that can require much emotion and energy.  He works in woods and metal to create practical and whimsical artwork, a blend of functional and fanciful.

 What started as a rocking cradle for his son 30 years ago has resulted in a perpetual joy in the fashioning of a wide variety of wood art, toys, tools and furniture.

 

After the discovery of the Burning Man Project in 2014, his focus has shifted to metal and fire art.  He has worked on two pieces with the Flaming Lotus Girls that have been brought to the Playa and was lead artist on their 2017 Burning Man Honorarium piece, NOETICA.

He has always strived to design pieces that meld form and function, and that explore the interaction between movement and what the eye perceives.  

Peter Hazel

 
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Peter Hazel

 

Peter was raised in art, his father translated his a love of landscape and nature with oil paint on canvas. As a young boy Peter used to accompany his father to art shows in and around his home town of Half Moon Bay. It was in 2008 that Peter across the art of Antoni Gaudi while traveling in Barcelona. Gaudi was a Spanish architect known for his highly individual and distinctive style that integrates the use of neo-Gothic and Oriental architecture with ceramics, stained glass, wrought iron work, and carpentry. 

The lights came on and Peter realized he could combine his love of nature and craftsmanship in a dynamic and interactive way that allows his audience to touch, feel, climb inside and around the wonders of the world. Peter’s art moves off the canvas as large scale 3D sculptures that merge his expertise in ceramics, tile, glass.