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Some of the sculptures created by award-winning New Zealand Wood Sculptor Peter Brierley-Millman. This is a preview of the Brierley-Millman Sculptures catalogue which can be downloaded by clicking on this link: eepurl.com and signing up the the newsletter. "Swamp kauri sculptures sell for million NZ Herald Monday February 14, 2011 10:59PM NZT If you want to sell a wood sculpture to a Texan, make sure it is big. Well, that's what Auckland carver Peter Brierley-Millman has done. Five of his kauri sculptures weighing between five and 12 tonnes each have been sold to a Texan lawyer in Houston for million. Eight months ago, the sculptures were raw blocks of kauri in Northland swamps where they had lain for thousands of years. Now they are lovingly crafted (and huge) pieces of art. "A tree is a living being, and I seek to reveal the inner beauty of its life to allow the tree to live again as a sculpture," says Brierley-Millman. The sculptures, including the two largest named Giantwins, are abstract pieces, but can be sat on. "It plays with that idea of a seat or throne." The buyer, Robert Taylor, has been a customer for the past three years. He started buying Brierley-Millman's pieces after seeing one on display during a holiday in Auckland. "This is the third shipment of sculpture he has bought from me. When they do things over there they really do them. They just go 'Yip, we're doing this'."