Jonas Olsen

 

Jonas Olsen's seals carved from Black walnut.

Maysam Shalviri II

 

The year of the horse, I want any excuse to share more of Maysam Shalviri's tender work.

Maysam Shalviri

 

Who could not love such tiny perfection?

Minuscule carving by Maysam Shalviri nestled in the crevasses of fingerprints. 

Bruno Walpoth II

 Bruno Walpoth's Pinocchio

Katharina Andress

Katharina Andress carves futuristic models in futuristic fantasy fashion, 'Andreonauts and Fashion for Astronauts'.

" I rasp and sand the wood, until no traces of carving can be seen. Then I prepare a chalk-based gesso according to old recipes and mix Bolognese and Champagne chalk with a compound of rabbit-skin-glue and water. Rabbit-skin glue is a traditional adhesive made from rabbit skins and bones. By now, there are modern alternatives, however, in the past this was the common glue. In the end, the mix has a creamy texture. It is a bit tricky, because the compound needs to stay warm at all times, but mustn’t get too hot or too cold. Then an approximate fifteen layers are applied with a brush. In between, I sand it then and again to make sure it will be completely even. At the very end, I polish the figure with an agate stone. It tightens the surface, that almost appears as porcelain or marble. It is so important to me to keep the face recognisably wooden. If the sculpture were white entirely, one could think it’s cast in plastic." Katharina Andress

Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

Like the muti faces Indian gods Yoshitoshi Kanemaki's sculptures have the movement of a multitude of expression, animated wood.

Tach Pollard

Tach Pollard works mainly in carved and burnt Hawthorn creating creatures resonating with mythology and folklore.

Danielle Rose Byrd

Danielle Rose Byrd's new giant carved bowl.

 

Tom Philipson

A beautiful carving of a fern which I found today on the instagram feed of Cumbria based furniture designer Tom Philipson.

Adeph Geddis

Adeph Geddis makes masks and puzzles, complex sculptural blocks and towers of angles. Adeph grew up on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest and learnt by watching and helping his grandfather who was a carver and boat builder.

Bob Trotman

Bob Trotnam's work is disconcerting, not comfortable viewing, his carved figures need to be rescued, caught and saved or sometimes quite the opposite they are the characters of contemporary, corporate, western society, suited, status hungry and ruthless.

"Working mostly in wood, I see my efforts in relation to the vernacular traditions of carved religious figures, ships’ figureheads, and the so-called “show figures” found outside shops in the nineteenth century. However, as a contemporary artist and son of a banker, I want to create installations that suggest an absurdist office-like arena in which we can see, more nakedly than usual, the elaborate posturings of power, privilege, and pretense that secretly, or not so secretly, shape the world we live in.  My point of view is both sympathetic and critical: those with power have much to answer for. If there were such a thing as corporate purgatory, this is what it might look like." Bob Trotman

Manulution

Rotating petal table by Rukotovorine's American based off shoot Manulution. Both companies produce traditional Bosnian Herzegovina furniture recognized by UNESCO for its exceptional craftsmanship. The modern designs are less decorative yet still feature some of the skilled carving that covers the surfaces of the traditional work.

Martin Puryear

"A Skeuomorphic Wing Chair,” 2012 by Martin Puryear carved pine with maple legs, made for the “Against the Grain” exhibition at MAD New York.

Faces in the wood.

Carved men in the posts marking the garden of Maciej Magnuszewski. For some fun, snow and woodwork for the joy of woodwork.

Paolo Del Toro II

I love this contrast of the very rough timber and the finally carved feet. Beautiful craftsmanship by Paolo Del Toro illustrator and woodworker.

Mary Leu 呂美麗精雕藝術館

Mary Leu 呂美麗精雕藝術館 carves phenomenal intricate versions of textiles and other common place objects from boxwood. each peice takes from three months to a year to complete and is perfect to a microscopic level.  You can see a video of Mary working here.

Aron Demetz II

Carved to perfection and then charred these are Aron Demetz haunting figures.