Original Wood Assemblage - 'Cabin No.1'

Laird Campbell is a Vancouver Island-based artist whose practice centres on the transformation of reclaimed and found wood into abstract compositions. Working from his studio in coastal British Columbia, he builds each piece by hand — selecting, fitting, and assembling fragments of wood the way a writer assembles words, intuitively and patiently, until the work finds its own shape.

A cabin is a particular kind of shelter — modest, purposeful, close to the land. 'Cabin No. 1' carries that quality: there is something spare and essential about the composition, a sense of structure reduced to its most necessary elements. The “No. 1” suggests a series, a first attempt, a beginning — and with it, the particular energy of something being worked out for the first time. This is a piece with a long history: exhibited in Campbell’s 2015 solo exhibition at the Cowichan Performing Arts Theatre, it represents an early and important moment in the development of his assemblage practice.

This original work is a Wood Assemblage: a hand-built composition of reclaimed wood pieces, each selected for its grain, age, and surface quality.

Medium: Original Wood Assemblage (reclaimed and found wood)
Dimensions: 9.5 × 9.35"
Exhibition: Cowichan Performing Arts Theatre, 2015 Solo Exhibition
Authenticity: One-of-a-kind original; signed by the artist