David Nash is a British sculptor and Land artist working primarily with natural materials and live trees. His wooden sculptures are made using heavy equipment including chainsaws and blowtorches, and he morphs trees into unexpected shapes in his works such as Oculus Block (2010), in which he melded two Eucalyptus stumps into a solid square. Born on November 14, 1945 in Esher, England, he attended the Kingston College of Art and later the Chelsea School of Art. Among his first and best-known works is Ash Dome (1977), for which the artist planted a circle of ash trees to form a wooden dome, its location kept secret to protect its delicate environment. In his performance Wooden Boulder (1978), Nash released a large carved ball of wood on ...