Doug Britt’s paintings and sculpture incorporate contemporary icons of Hawaii: planes, ships, tourism – objects that embody the modern-day experience of paradise. Britt’s works are riddled with playful and humorous undercurrents, while exploring the implicit contradictions of island life.
Sharon Britt has enjoyed a lifelong affinity for fiber and, in particular, woven and coiled basketry. They provide the primary material for her work, in which the dark root hairs are coiled and bound with waxed linen thread, gradually built into totemic figures, and further animated with the addition of shells and strands of kapa.
