Nature's Hand

Andy Goldsworthy's art is impermanent, unplanned, and not for display or sale. Andy Goldsworthy's art does not rely on the eyes of others, the eyes of institutions, to promote or house and appraise his pieces, for he does not care for the generally accepted rules or ideals about art. Goldsworthy's art is not just design, it is nature.

Goldsworthy creates his pieces in a natural environment, out of nature itself. In fact, the artist is inspired by his medium and only his medium in the immediate time and space in which he creates. The lack of planning or agonizing over a prospective design or intended result gives a different quality to Goldsworthy's art, something more, well, natural. His day takes him into nature, where inspiration from nature finds Goldsworthy and the artist becomes the tool; it is not his point of view that he is led to create, it is nature's essence and the free-flowing feeling which causes him to create such art.

Goldsworthy's method and his medium allow him to be more than an artist, but to become a tool of the earth, a helper in expressing the rules and ways of nature. His art is real, more-so, perhaps, than the museum and gallery artists who depict human lives and human interactions, because his art is nature and because it is the direct result of unplanned, raw inspiration.