StephenRHicks

Age: 58

Born on a wave in California.
Resides on a paddle board in Knoxville, TN.

Crafting the primitive, natural, and organic arts of:

Wood carvings
Bone carvings
Raku pottery
Custom knife making
Custom fossil jewelry
Exotic leathers
As a child, I loved everything Mother Nature had to offer my wildest imagination. Trees, wood, clay, dirt, rocks... The sky, the clouds, the mountains, the ocean...

Then I grew up.

I found myself in the daily grind of life. I was fortunate enough to allow my creativity time to breathe while renovating both beautiful and not so beautiful homes. These houses and their land spoke to me. They told the richness of their history through architecture and items left behind. Through gifts in the landscape and under the earth. In a sense, I became a self-taught archaeologist and paleontologist.

I began to travel throughout the Southeast finding historical bottles, Native American artifacts, fossils, precious stones and other fascinating items. My imagination cherished the stories behind each one of these finds. These treasures. Ahhh... all those remembrances of the imaginative child within me. It felt good. It revitalized my soul.

I have come full circle into expressing myself through several modalities of art. My art is inspired by Imagination, Mother Nature and Great Spirit. I hope my art inspires others to find the deep, authentic imagination within themselves..

Stephen R. Hicks

Magical, Mystical, Maya

I have always been interested in the Mayan culture.

The true fascination began with a visit to the ancient city of Chicen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula. I was blown. away. I could never imagine in my wildest dreams a city of this magnitude actually existed in ancient times. The more I explored the city, the more I felt a mystical feeling inside me. Had I perhaps been here before? More than that... I knew I belong here.

I could not get enough of the beauty that my eyes were seeing or the energy that was causing my body to quiver. Words could not explain what was happening.

I was the last to leave this sacred place for the day. The Temples. The Cenote. The Mayan people. Everything about this maginificent city captured my heart. I felt I truly belonged here.