Kent Ezzell:

Early in my life I had the good fortune to find the thing that I enjoy the most.  Working with wood and using the wonderful combination of engaging both my head and my hands to create anything I can imagine.  That is what I am all about.

In my work, I use wood for both its structure and beauty. I've learned about glass, color and light and added these to my projects in similar ways.  The combination of materials that I use has taken a lot of time to graft together and I suspect it will take the rest of my life to perfect.

I have studied and been inspired by some of the great artists of the 19th & 20th centuries.  The works of Charles and Henry Greene, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Maxfield Parrish and Louis Majorelle have been some of my key influences.

With each project I hope to pay respect to these great artists.  I feel that they have blazed the trail before me and challenged those like me, who would come after them.  I do realize that to put myself on the same page as these greats is more than a bold statement.  But I do this to pay them homage and to challenge myself.  If I am going to learn from their work, I need to be in balance and to be humble.  And that is one of the beauties of working with wood and pushing the envelope of the other materials, it keeps you humble.

My artist's statement is this:  "It can be done." If I can learn at least one thing from these masters, it would be to understand their passion and ability to push what has been done before to a place it has never been.