Barbara Hepworth and her spiritual circles will always remain connected. The round holes in her wooden sculptures offer a glimpse into sacred landscapes. Not only on earth but also a view of the sun, the moon and the universe. Barbara Hepworth and her spiritual circle, […]
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Future Outlook 2025 is the title of my latest commissioned wooden sculpture. It is based on an earlier relief of a hand pushing aside a theater curtain: ‘Stage Fright’. The beautifully grained elm wood provides the basis for the folds of the curtain. Future Outlook
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Adriaen van Wesel worked under his own name. Because of this he remained known, while virtually all his colleagues from the late Middle Ages have remained anonymous. They worked as ‘nameless’ sculptors in the workshops of ‘masters’. Adriaen van Wesel worked under his own name.
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The Master of Joachim and Anna carves a medieval hug in the wooden sculpture Joachim and Anna. They embrace each other because Anna is finally pregnant, after a visit from an angel. The child will be a girl, who in turn will also become pregnant
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The Master of Hakendover hid Peter under rocks, which seem about to collapse. All lines in this wooden sculpture focus on the mourning face and folded hands of the apostle, who betrayed Jesus three times. The Master of Hakendover hid Peter under rocks. Peter squeezes
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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 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
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
Paul McCarthy turns Snow White into a porn star, by having her suck off the pointed hat of one of the seven dwarfs. The wooden sculpture is part of his White Snow project, a series of gigantic sculptures carved from black walnut wood. The pointed
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Emile van der Kruk turns trees upside down. That way they look like people, he says. “Their roots are our brains.” He incorporated this idea into his most beautiful wooden sculptures. For example, he carved a large human ear from the trunk of a root
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