Masters of the Middle Ages. The website Wowwood.nl shows various influential sculptors from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Among the well-known names there are also numerous wood carvers who operated from the Low Countries and what later became the Netherlands. Adriaen van Wesel carved […]
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Louise Nevelson made monuments from found wood: assemblages of crates, chair legs, turned spindles, columns and door panels. She assembled all the loose parts into architectural installations and painted them matte black. The Centre Pompidou in Metz (France) shows her ‘monuments’ this year (2026). Rain
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On rising seas depicts Poseidon emerging from the waves. The Greek god is more powerful and vengeful than ever. Due to the warming seas and oceans, increasingly powerful hurricanes are plaguing humanity. On rising seas shows the Greek sea god Poseidon, looking up, at a
Where’s that wolf? is a wooden panel about the hunt for the Dutch ‘problem wolf’ Bram who was missing for months. Eventually the animal was shot. Where’s that wolf? Take a good look at the right curtain. On my panel too the wolf is not
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On the Beach is about a sun worshipper. She is on the beach with a golden shell as a hat. A lying ‘razor clam’ serves as a pedestal. On the Beach, enjoying the sun. On the Beach is a follow-up to the commission to make
The Idol of Samos is one of the few surviving wooden sculptures from classical antiquity. The figurine was carved around 650 BC in Greece. The painting or even the dressing of this ‘idol’ has perished over the centuries. The Idol of Samos: was it the
First primitive art, then Western art, then tourist souvenir. This is how one of the most popular wooden tourist souvenirs from Bali came full circle; that of the weeping Buddhist monk. Left the ‘Crouching Figure’ by André Derain, right the wooden ‘Weeping Monk’ from Bali.
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Louise Bourgeois carved seven eggs in wood and called them ‘Gathering Wool’. That is an English expression that stands for ‘the wandering of the mind’. Daydreaming. Floating mentally. Bourgeois used this state of mind in her studio to evoke ideas. Louise Bourgeois carved seven eggs
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Olafur Eliasson made a compass from driftwood, washed ashore on a beach in Iceland. He called his artwork Climate Justice Navigator. The Climate Justice Navigator (2018), a real compass made of driftwood. Since the nineties, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (1967) has conquered a special position
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Holy Shell is the name of a wooden sculpture that I made on request. The shape is based on the prayer shell that is a symbol of happiness for Tibetan monks. Holy Shell, made of cross laminated timber from industrial wood construction. Holy Shell is
