MARION — When Mattapoisett artist Dena Haden sets out to begin a new art project, the first thing she does isn’t to pick out a canvas or select a paintbrush but to forage through nature, selecting materials she’d like to use and finding inspiration in the world around her.

Now, after nearly two decades of creating and displaying sculptures across Europe and Asia using materials she found in each location, Haden is set to unveil a piece in the tri-town for the first time.

Titled “Love is a circle,” Haden created her newest sculpture from grape and cranberry vines she foraged from the Osprey Marsh and several other Sippican Lands Trust properties.

“I wanted to create a piece that kind of honored the land that we live on and also the cranberry itself in its heritage to this land and what it’s brought to us,” she said.

She added that she also wanted to create a piece that honored the experience of going onto public land and having “open, beautiful spaces that we can experience.”

Haden said the process of creating the exhibit was “actually very organic,” explaining that it began after she ran into Cathy Stone, the president of Sippican Lands Trust, while hiking through one of the organization’s properties.

“We literally just bumped into each other on the trail and we got to talking about my dog and then the trails … and from there she was like, ‘Oh, you’re an artist. Send me your work’ and they asked me to do a piece,” she explained.

Hiking the Sippican Lands Trust trails, in particular the Osprey Marsh and a few others, Haden said she was always looking for inspiration and found it in the discarded cranberry vines left over from harvesting the berries.

“I kept thinking for over a year, ‘I need to do something with this,’” she said.

Haden started working on her sculpture in January, foraging for materials and designing the piece, and three months ago began the weaving process.

As she wove the grape and cranberry vines together into rings about an inch and a half to 2-inches wide, she interlocked them into one large circle about six-feet wide.

“I was just kind of interlacing the cyclical system of nature with the experience of love and how we can give love and then that person or object can give love to something else,” she said.

She added, “So kind of how we can create this unity and interwoven circular ecosystem of love.”

Haden explained her intention with the piece was to create something from the “actual land” that people could see the landscape through, no matter what side of the sculpture they stood on.

As viewers look through the piece, which Haden said is like a lens to see nature through, it’s meant to change with the light and shadows and “bring you into more of an awareness.”

When people enter the trails at Osprey Marsh, they will pass by “Love is a circle,” which Haden said could open dialogue.

“You can look at the piece and it can kind of slow you down because the piece is all interlocked and kind of like this mandala,” she said.

Haden started creating nature-based sculptures in 2008 after shifting away from oil painting because she found she was highly sensitive to the toxins in the paint.

“I had to stop painting and then it just opened my eyes to working sustainably and using non-toxic materials and materials that can kind of go back into the earth,” she said.

Haden first started making her sculptures when she was working and living on a farm in Berkeley, Massachusetts. There she worked on the land and used the land in her work.

Up until now, the closest to home she has displayed her work has been in Nantucket and Jamestown, Rhode Island, and despite showing her sculptures world-wide, Haden said she’s excited to exhibit a piece so close to home.

“It totally just makes me so excited to be able to have the work actually exhibited here and just to welcome the community that supported me and all of my practice,” Haden said.

Haden’s exhibit opens on Tuesday, June 24 at the Osprey Marsh at 354 Point Road with a reception beginning at 4 p.m. The event is free for members of the Sippican Lands Trust and costs $10 for non-members. Registration is requested, which can be made on the Sippican Lands Trust website.