New icons made on Mount Athos, a secluded monastic state in northern Greece. Especially notable are icons painted on weathered wood, combined with wood carving that reaches back to centuries of Orthodox tradition. New icons made on Mount Athos, like this Maria with nice ornamental […]
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Gauguin missed the bisj poles. In search of authentic woodcarving in Polynesia, he would have been better off traveling to Papua New Guinea than to Tahiti. In this former Dutch colony, the culture of carving bisj poles was still thriving around 1890. Gauguin missed the
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Queen Tiy: Oldest Wooden Bust in Egypt. Carved around 1353 BCE from yew wood, this bust is nearly 3,400 years old. Exceptionally small yet impressive, it is considered the oldest known wooden bust from the Egyptian civilization. It serves as a rare milestone in the history of wood sculpture.
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The Royal Standard of Ur is one of the most evocative objects to survive from the dawn of urban civilization. Created around 2600–2400 BCE, during the Early Dynastic period of Sumer, it offers a rare, intimate view of how one of the world’s first complex societies imagined
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The eyes of Eveline van Duyl look at you from within a forest. Or is it Eveline herself who sees a roe deer or a wolf? Who is watching whom? When we are in nature, are we looking outward—or inward instead? In her series Forest, this
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Top 10 African Wood Carving Traditions is not a list of individual masterpieces. It is more of an overview of the ten most important African wood carving traditions, each represented by typical sculptures or masks, to showcase the diversity and ritual significance of these cultures.
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Unkei was centuries ahead of European wood carvers. The Japanese sculptor was the very first to introduce expression in the faces of his sculptures. He also already worked under his own name, while the European makers of Christ and Mary sculptures still delivered their work
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Katsura Funakoshi brings Japanese to life. His wooden sculptures breathe a serene beauty. With a masterful command of classical Japanese wood carving techniques, he gives his figures a lifelike presence. Also because the marble eyes seem to look at you. Katsura Funakoshi brings Japanese to
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Martin Puryear depicts the social ladder as an endless climb. His wooden ladder of almost 11 meters gets narrower the higher it goes. The title Ladder for Booker T. Washington refers to one of the first Black African-American leaders. Puryear himself also comes from the
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A Pilgrimage to Val Gardena. This short presentation by Wowwood focuses on five Internationally Renowned Wood Artists born and working in this valley in South-Tirol, Italy. The longer biography’s can be found in the blog on Wowwood. A short presentation by Wowwood. Val Gardena has
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