Wood Carving Artists

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

David Nash has been processing the four elements fire, earth, water and air in wooden sculptures all his life. His work with fresh wood continues to change through drying for a long time. The fact that the fresh oak wood will crack and split is

Auction record Leonora Carrington with the wooden sculpture painted by her ‘La Grande Dame’. Also known as: ‘The Cat Woman’. A buyer paid no less than 11.38 million dollars (!) for it at auction house Sotheby’s. This amount breaks the record of another wooden sculpture:

Man Ray destroyed the eye of Lee Miller, attached to the inverted pendulum of a metronome. His muse and fellow photographer had left him. That is why this surrealist wooden sculpture was accompanied by the instruction: ‘destroy it in one blow’. Man Ray destroyed the

Giacometti dreamed of a palace at night, at 4 o’clock in the morning. Influenced by other surrealist artists he constructed a fragile structure of wooden rods with abstract wooden sculptures inside: a female figure, a skeleton of some kind of flying dinosaur, a bowl with

Asmundur Sveinsson designed the chairman’s gavels of the UN and NATO. What’s more: the gavels are identical. Mark Rutte is the fourth chairman from the Netherlands to open NATO meetings with this ‘hammer of Thor’. Both gavels have already been hammered to pieces. At his

Ellsworth Kelly created spiritual totem poles. Not like the First Nations of the American west coast with bird figures, but completely abstract in form. With a slight curve he gave the wood some movement, giving the artwork something natural.  This wooden ‘totem pole’ ‘Untitled’ by