Wild Thing Gauguin

Wild Thing Gauguin, that’s how biographer Sue Prideaux summarizes the famous painter. But she doesn’t forget the wood carver that Gauguin also was. From clog maker to artist who brought back to life the sculptures of the islanders in French Polynesia destroyed by colonizer France. […]

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The Willow Crown

The Willow Crown is a crown of gnarled willow wood. It gives my princess something mythical. Deep shrinkage cracks in the bust create a dramatic effect. With her ‘blonde bob’ hairstyle as a helmet she stares into the distance. The Willow Crown, carved from a

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Eve’s Roots

Eve’s Roots tells my story about Eve, after Lilith the second woman in the earthly paradise. But did she really come from Adam’s rib? If not, where did she come from then? Where are her roots? Eve’s Roots, carved from the white sapwood of American

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9000 BC: Domestication

‘9000 BC: Domestication’, in other words: how humanity began living together with animals 9000 years before Christ. Sheep would have been domesticated first, then goats and dogs. That message is hidden in this elm wood sculpture, in which a hand symbolically pushes aside the curtain. 

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