NUMBER 50 about time, I was getting restless doing all this research. Any way the last artist is Tommy Craggs, who does some amazing wood carvings. He recycles fallen trees or trees culled for woodland management and sculpts them. His biggest collection of wild animals, is spread out on a nature walk in Allenford Park in durham, England. He has won plenty of awards in carving festivals, and recently placed third in Canada's Chetwynd Chainsaw carving championship in 2011; shoot I wonder who placed first and second, cause he is a beast. It amazes how become can work with certian tools to make, amazing art.
My favorite piece is called Douglass in the jungle, the piece is intense. The figure looks like a Gorilla, with feathers of a tree, and connected to a giant tree. The eyes almost look blood shot red and the features in the face, looks like the sculpture does not want you in his teritory. I also like that fact that he didn't take the sculpture and place it in a clear field, he left it in it's enviornment.
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| Douglas in the jungle, 2010 |
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