Huck & Co.

Fred Brandes, located in East Hampton, NY, specializes in creating innovative art pieces through a combination of woodwork, staining, painting, and the intricate cutting of seashells and marine life. Each seashell is carefully selected and arranged for its unique shape, size, and color, drawing inspiration from nature's Fibonacci spiral and ancient civilizations' carvings. Utilizing seashells as "Nature's painted sculptures," Fred Brandes crafts three-dimensional art, assemblages, and collages that showcase a meticulous and skillful process of cutting, grinding, and arranging each shell by hand. His work evokes the relief carvings of ancient civilizations and offers a personalized touch by allowing clients to customize the size, color, and density of their commissioned pieces. With a background in abstract painting influenced by his time at Cooper Union in NYC, Fred Brandes explores color, light, and structure in his paintings. Employing a unique technique of staining, painting, and layering, Brandes creates dynamic compositions where bands of color interact and intertwine, showcasing his mastery of tools like striping wheels, wood patterns, and foam brushes to achieve captivating textures and forms. Generated from the website content