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By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Sandra Burton’s exhibition of sculpture, “Images in Wood,” at the Middle Street Gallery during May, reveals the versatility of her mind.
She finds animals and people in pieces of trees, liberating them with a minimum of carving and manipulation. A creation she titles “Hollo Beastie” is made of a thin piece of walnut, blond on one face and dark on the other. It is curved, hollow and tall with, at one angle, the graceful fling of a dancer’s gesture. It trips your imagination, suggesting several creatures.
The two most expressive pieces for me were “Torso” and “Sorrow,” both shaped from pieces of cedar. In “Torso” Ms. Burton has cunningly found a well developed, turning body with great tactile appeal. Its asymmetry makes it especially beautiful. “Sorrow” is an elongated, slightly bent image of a woman wrapped in a shawl. She suggests a Madonna, but her anguished expression and gesture endow her with a more universal
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