Doug Adams

In November of 1980, as a young man seeking fortune, Doug started working for a large steel mill. He was entranced by the process of taking recycled scrap metal from its simple form and making a new useable product. With the 65 ton electric arc furnaces spewing out molten steel into a large ladle, to the continuous caster where a billet of steel weighing 1.5 tons is cut into 25' lengths in preparation for reheating and rolling into bars of angle, flat, rounds, rebar or any of dozens of marketable shapes, the work was hot, dirty and often times dangerous.

Now retired from the mill after nearly 30 years, Doug is creating unique one of a kind metal sculptures using many of the same techniques and processes he had became familiar with in the metal industry. Making a sculpture out of steel scraps and found objects, persuading them to succumb to the will of the artist's hands, is the challenge that Doug thrives on. Items that might end up in junkyards or farmer's backyards become contemporary abstract sculptures, or Doug's signature Garden Bells, exhibited at GVG Contemporary. Each bell is unique, well crafted, weather resistant, and has a distinctive tone when struck.