When B.B. McIntyre saw vintage exercise wood pieces in an antique mall in Port Townsend, she saw a horse immediately. She knew it would become her next piece.

“Until recently, I was a horse owner and studied dressage,” she explained. Due to health issues, she had to give up riding. “My frustration over not being able to ride my beautiful horse, Hero, was great. I channeled that energy into these horses I’ve been creating.”

Standing 30 inches tall, “Spoons” took McIntyre a year to complete. Although a simple piece, it was not easy to put together. This style of art is called assemblage – a sculpture made of disparate parts. It’s also leaning into Dada, she explained, which is an avant-garde, anti-establishment, anti-art movement.

“I follow in the steps of Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Alexander Calder, and others,” she said.

McIntyre received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has been working as a full-time artist since 2002. She’s taken and offered many workshops through the years and has a nice resume of acceptances and awards both national and international. She moved to the island in 2015 where she currently creates assemblage pieces that can be purchased at Windy Gallery and Studios on Spring Street.

“Spoons” is made of bowling/juggling pins, dumbbell, table legs, curved rasp, silver spoons, antique German glass doll eyes, hand-hammered copper eye sockets, an antique clothes brush, old checkers, cured wood pieces and steel screws.

“It is graceful and a bit whimsical at the same time,” she described. “It has a bit of classic simplicity which is the tops for me.”