Chimpanzee

Goat

“I seek, through sculpture, to create a face to face, to reveal another side of humanity, to take a look full of meaning and emotion as each of us is a mirror of the other.”

Horse

Cat, detail

Red Deer

Thierry Chollat’s website

Get a closer look in this 25 second video

Two pages of pictures here

On his blog, Chollat shares stone sculptures and illustrations of nudes

Blonde Variables of a Canyon
fiddleback english maple, walnut, basswood, maple, acrylic paints
77″ x 34″ x 16″

Blonde Variables of a Canyon, detail

Drawings
basswood, walnut, poplar, mahogany, steel
80″ x 24″ x 16″

Drawings, detail

Though his body of work consists mostly of studio furniture, there is a strong sculptural quality to each piece – and most depict some kind of balance between shape, form, materials.

Boo, Pomm and Boulder
pommele sapele, poplar, basswood , sycamore, acrylic paint, LDF
67″ x 32″ x 17″

Work in progress

Artist, teacher, father, husband, arts advocate – his life, like many others, is a balancing act – and his beautifully crafted work is a welcome reminder that balance is a good thing.

“The manipulation of humor, awkward form relationships, introduction of real or implied function and the use of color are in response to my existence. These form and color relationships help me to celebrate humor as a strong elixir; it heals.”

Brent Skidmore’s website

When I first saw Jae-Hyo Lee’s large wood sculptures it didn’t surprise me that while admiring them, not only was I impressed with the scale of the work and the fact that it is no small feat to bring one of these sculptures into being, but I also immediately saw each of these grand sculptures translated into a brooch, a pendant or a small vessel. The shapes are mostly familiar – but the surface patterns and textures – now wouldn’t they be something to see in jewelry? Hmmm. . .indeed.

Let’s go back to Lee’s incredible work. Most of the images here are from his portfolio of wood sculptures – when you visit his website don’t stop there. The Wood and Nails portfolio is equally compelling and there are 19 pages of studio images in addition to several other portfolios.

“He sees the world in a slightly oblique way, and has a gift for turning the familiar into the unfamiliar.

Almost all of us, at one time or another, have had the experience – perhaps when we have just woken up – of feeling completely disassociated from things that, at other moments, are perfectly familiar to us. A chair is not a chair. A table is not a table. It is, instead, a wholly alien object forcefully imported into an entirely unready consciousness.

What Lee Jaehyo offers, in fact, are opportunities for seeing the world anew, with the kind of innocence of vision that we associate with children’s play.” Art historian and critic Edward Lucie-Smith

Jae-Hyo Lee’s website

“Touching everything, he has no need to position himself, he keeps a timeless curiosity and a capacity of being astonished and amazed. Transcending different cultures his universe is always changing. He likes to construct, in mythology, objects that are prosaic, common and real.” From the artist’s website

“One must always re-invent everything to better understand what already exists.” Patrick Vogel

“I sculpt, I dream, I sculpt, I live, I sculpt, I question, I sculpt, I reflect, I sculpt, I create, I sculpt and life is good. So much the better!” Patrick Vogel

Patrick Vogel’s website

Inspired by Japanese folklore, myths and dreams, Yoshimasa Tsuchiya carves each sculpture from wood then adds plaster and paint during the finishing process. Tsuchiya holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in Conservation, Classical Technique.

The image above shows raw wood blocks with drawings pinned to them, waiting to be cut with power tools. The same blocks of wood pictured below, now shaped, joined together and in the process of receiving hand-carved details.

The finished sculpture. Shhhhh. . .

Yoshimasa Tsuchiya’s website