Wood Artists

Henrique Olivera
http://henriqueoliveira.com/
This guy does some incredible installations, creating different worlds with wood shards. Its pretty amazing what he does with installations. He also does regular sculptures too.

Bruno Walpoth:
http://www.walpoth.com/impressions.html
Creates extremely lifelike people out of wood and then paints over them to bring a strange looking fake feel to them. Its funny to see him make such realistic sculptures, but then paint over them to almost make them look less life-like and more like mannequins.

Cha Jong-Rye
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/the-woodwork-of-cha-jong-rye/
Incredible work by using different length slats of wood- uses the layering method like a lot of wood artists do.

Andries Botha
http://andriesbotha.net/artwork/2006-2010/you-can-buy-my-heart-and-my-soul
Uses distressed wood to create life size wooden elephants... covers over a metal frames and then installs them in public areas.

Joseph Saccio
http://www.kehlerliddell.com/joseph-saccio/new-work/
Doesnt always use wood, but when he does, its with tree trunks and branches. I love the natural and woodsy look of his art because of his use of found wood instead of treated wood.

Henry Moore
http://www.henrymoore.com/
Famous sculptor and known for making his organic shaped and pierced pieces. Usually in the form of a reclining woman's' body or a mother and child. I love the shapes he makes in his pieces!

Nice Wood Carvers

Simon O’Rourke is a chainsaw carver who currently resides in Wales. He originally got a degree in illustration, wanting to ultimately get commissioned for children books, but since he needed a full time job, he became a carver.  He usually creates his art by using existing stumps, or taking wasted timber.  Through the use of hand tools and chainsaws, he is able to create beautiful pieces of work, ranging from various types of animals to elegant sculptures of women.  He has competed in a plethora of chainsaw carving competitions all around the world.  His works are usually featured in public places or private gardens

Paul Baden is a self taught sculptor that was fascinated with the layers of plywood that mimicked contour lines. He usually sculpts with laminate wood veneers. His work is about exploring the shape, and making a form that allows the mind and hand to navigate through the shape.  He loves to maneuver his way around these wood forms and create something that has never been done before. Much of his work consists of human forms. Something so basic turns into a simple form to Baden, and with his sculptures, his depictions of human bodies are incredibly interesting and capture the essence of natural body form and makes something we see everyday into artwork.

Patrick Burke is from Wisconsin and has travelled to Florence and studied at Ortisei Village, being the only non-European to attend the school.  There, he enhanced his skills in wood carving, and though his work is incredibly intricate, he states that he is nowhere near where he wants to be as a wood sculptor. His work is one of the finest I’ve seen personally, and his subject matter, no matter how mundane, is done with such great detail, it is hard to believe that it is made of wood.  

Wood Artists: Reinoso, Kohler, and Vesery

PABLO REINOSO
I'm really interested in this artist's work. He is taking everyday, useful objects (benches, etc.) and using them as an opportunity for high art. An idea I'm pretty much all about.

Check it out here: http://www.pabloreinoso.com/


VINCENT KOHLER
This is pretty awesome. His pieces are often really different from each other but he's doing some cool stuff.

http://www.vincentkohler.ch/index.html


JACQUES VESERY
This guy has some great carvings. This series of sea forms looks amazing. I wouldn't even know it was wood just from looking at the pictures if it weren't for the captions.


 http://www.jacquesvesery.com/www.jacquesvesery.com/Seaforms.html

Shintaro Ohata

I just stumbled upon this.  Best combination of 2D and 3D I've ever seen.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1vGN1P/:fham+f0a:6uq8c_$t/enpundit.com/shintaro-ohatas-2d-painting-3d-sculpture/