Heart Boxes
These boxes date from around the mid 1990s. Most were part of a larger collection I made to sell at the Signatures Craft Show (1996) and at my summer kiosque during subsequent years. |
| Coffret coeur with dowel hinge, black walnut |
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| Heart box with carved clown, ash & black walnut |
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| Trio of heart boxes, black walnut with stains & gold paint |
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| With frosted peach stain & pyrography |
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| With gold paint & pyrography |
Fish Plates
After spending a long time concentrating on my little house series, I decided to spend the summer of 1987 carving some fish plates. The mahogany ones turned out the best because they are quite sturdy. They proved to be especially good for holding peanuts. The hard lacquer finish I used on them meant that they could be easily wiped clean between uses. However, I believe that many people preferred to use them as decorations.
Early Abstract Sculptures
I carved this little series around the Christmas period, in 1996, about halfway through my first year of carving.
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| Small totem style sculptures, from left to right: stained linden, linden, linden, black walnut, mahogany |
Carved Louis XV style Footstool
This is a footstool that I made as a school project when I was studying cabinetmaking back towards the end of the l980s. It was destined to be a special gift for my parents.
Mom and Dad proudly enjoyed this footstool until the end of their lives. It has remained in perfect condition. I now have it back in my house, and have hung onto it for mostly sentimental reasons.
**However, if there is someone who would like to purchase it, please contact me by e-mail, and we could negotiate a reasonable price.
These small plaques in stained pine wood are examples of the carvings I made to sell to tourists in the Old Quebec City during the 1990s and late 1980s. At first I sold my carvings through the boutiques. Later on, between 1993 and 2000, I continued producing them for my summer kiosque at les Artisans de la Cathédrale in the courtyard of Holy Trinity Cathedral in the heart of the Vieux-Québec.
This early tourist souvenir carving was inspired by a very old house on Chateauguay Street in the St-Sauveur district of Quebec City's Lower Town. Note that at the left side of the house there is a door which opens into a covered staircase leading to the apartment upstairs.
The house on the left in this tiny carving was where I lived, on rue Bagot in St-Sauver, when I first moved to Quebec City in 1984. I lived in this quaint old house for five years, and I had my first woodcarving studio there. Many happy memories !
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| Handmade Louis XV style footstool, mahogany with upholstery |
Relief Carvings of Old Houses
This early tourist souvenir carving was inspired by a very old house on Chateauguay Street in the St-Sauveur district of Quebec City's Lower Town. Note that at the left side of the house there is a door which opens into a covered staircase leading to the apartment upstairs.
The house on the left in this tiny carving was where I lived, on rue Bagot in St-Sauver, when I first moved to Quebec City in 1984. I lived in this quaint old house for five years, and I had my first woodcarving studio there. Many happy memories !
