DANCING BUTTERFLIES

Peter fell in love with the wonders of the sea and nature growing up in the picturesque community of Half Moon Bay, California. As a child, he attended art shows with his father, Richard Hazel, a well-known oil painter. After leaving Half Moon Bay, Peter lived and raised a family in North Lake Tahoe where he had a career as a tile contractor for 35 years. While visiting Barcelona in 2008 and viewing Antoni Gaudi’s intricate and elaborate architecture he was inspired to begin creations of his own and would eventually pass on his tile business to his son Jimmy.

Peter’s collection invites you to interact and admire the beauty of modern art and sculpting using ceramics, colorful glass, steel, and carpentry. He is famous for his massive jellyfish, crocodile, and octopus installed over the years at Burning Man events in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada.  

Dancing Butterflies is for sale for $14,000.

A poem inspired by this sculpture:

Re-cocooned

 

Perhaps I am dancing

Happily

Perhaps my being on the brink of extinction, 

Allows me one dance:

A chance to entrance you: to last a bit longer.

Perhaps, if captured 

in time,

these

Cemented wings and

Coats of paint

Will not allow us to become faint.

As long as you glance at us

Before it’s too late.

 

By Charlotte Flukey, Vintage High School Student

YOUNTVILLE ART WALK
  1. FACES OF FREEDOM
  2. SERANADE II
  3. CIRCLE OF TRUST
  4. LOVE WINE TOO
  5. COMBUSTION
  6. LILIUM
  7. DROPSY
  8. SLICE OF LIFE
  9. THE CHEF
  10. YELLOW SPHERE
  11. TRIANGULATED SQUARES
  12. SARVANGA
  13. ROCK MUSHROOMS
  14. LAW LIBRARY
  15. SIDEWALK JUDGE
  16. THE TWO OF US
  17. SENTINEL
  18. CHAOS PAMPLONA
  19. ROCKY
  20. MOUNTAIN HEART
  21. SUNBURST
  22. WINDSWEPT
  23. Y.E.S. BOOK
  24. MUSE WITH ATTITUDE
  25. CUBES AND TUBES
  26. DANCING BUTTERFLIES
  27. HONORARY FIREFIGHTER
  28. CHRYSALIS
  29. RAVEN
  30. COMING SOON!
  31. SLINGSHOT
  32. THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS
  33. NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM