Celtic Carving II

After a reasonable amount of "flat" carving and some experimentation with painting, drawing, and making jewelry with the knotwork patterns, I was ready to try a new direction.  The story about the preliminary stages of carving Clonmacnois can be found in the Ridgway 2005 pages.  Maybe I'll write more about the interminable intermediate stages one day. 

Clonmacnois was carved from one piece of wood.                                          Back

clonmacnois clonmacnois The text around the base of the carving was taken from a lintel in Carl Jung's home:

Vocatus et non vocatus, Deus adherit.

(Bidden or not, God is present.)

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It is finished with Sikkens Cetol 1 and Cetol 23 coatings, and is six feet tall, give or take.  It weighs approximately 150#.                                                         $1500
 
Each of the carvings below is approximately six feet tall.  They were carved from the offcuts remaining when the media racks and tall obelisks were shaped.

Braddan

 Tree of Life Tombe Flower

Sipenitsi

Braddan Flame Tree of Life Tombe Flower

Sipenitsi Spiral

  Braddan Flame was inspired by a design carved on a slab-cross located in the Braddan churchyard, Isle of Mann.  The style of the braid shows the Scandinavian influence on traditional Celtic carving.  In the original, the chain-link design branches into the Tree of Life, rather than an eternal flame.

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Tree of Life was carved for the NC Botanical Garden Sculpture show, September 2004.  It was the first Celtic-inspired work I carved that was figurative, rather than fully abstract.  The roots of Tombe Flower can be clearly seen in this earlier work.

 

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Tombe Flower was inspired by a spiral pattern used on the edge of the St. Jean Sur-Tombe Disk, created in France in 410 BC.  The original design was strongly bilateral and adapted for a stand-alone carving while maintaining the flow of the scrolls.

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 The Sipenitsi spiral originated on a vase found in the west Ukraine that was dated to 3800 BCE.  The original was transformed from clay to pottery by an unknown artist; the wood used in this piece was rescued from a tree damaged by a construction project and transformed into a different form of sculpture.

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