Wood Carving Artists

Yuhao Zhu designed the wooden cuddle chair HUG, the Hug Chair. The chair functions as a physical embrace, an invitation to become a tree hugger. A wooden chair to embrace: the HUG by Yuhao Zhu. The young unknown Chinese designer Yuhao Zhu designed a chair […]

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,

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Scream of Mother Earth by Omer Gielliet is no more. Removed and destroyed by the municipality of Amsterdam. The wood of the award-winning wooden sculpture in the town of Weesp ‘was rotten and cracked’. A pity that of this groundbreaking sculpture nothing more than

Donatello depicts an emaciated Mary Magdalene. She is naked, only covered by the hair she did not cut for thirty years. The poplar wood sculpture broke with all traditions and rules of the church. The Renaissance began. The Italian Donatello (Born as: Donato di Niccolò