The Chainsaw Carvers - "Click To Visit"
Chainsaw Carving Page by Erl's Carved Wood House Signs
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Every time I visit a chainsaw carving event or auction I come away inspired. This page was assembled to provide a spot for Cascade Chainsaw Scultor Guild artists to feature a selected piece and/or provide a link to their website. I hope you enjoy this little tour.
Susan is a former school teacher who quit teaching and began making a living doing woodcarvings. Most of her works are done with a chainsaw, and some of them are quite large. She is a member of the rural volunteer ambulance team and has many friends in her community.
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Pat is a founder of the Cascade Chainsaw Sculptors Guild. His long history in the arts goes back 30 years to Paris, where he gradually fell into furniture repair and later, furniture design and construction. After moving to the Olympic Peninsula, his attraction to the natural forms of the forest led him into wood carving. His whimsical and sometimes comical sense is often the basis of unique carvings of people and animals. Many of his works are visible in public spaces up and down the West Coast.
Pat is a full time artist specializing in large wood sculpture. He also works in stone, clay, cast metals, concrete and ice.
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Westport 2000 - A Resounding Success
--Beverly Butcher
The 11th Annual International Nautical Wood Sculpture Competition was an outstanding carving success! There were 59 carvers from the United States and Canada who competed for a crowd 30,000 over a four day weekend in the coastal Washington town of westport.
The almost 60 sculptors with their chainsaws, tools, trucks, dogs and everything else covered an area the size of two football fields a block away from the ocean. The public had the whole town to walk around in right up to the roped off area.
The sculptor's entry fee was to make one quick carve piece each day. These 75 minute sculptures were auctioned off to the public to pay for the competition and all the great gifts and prize money to entice great carvers. Over the last 11 years the Westport bidder has become one of the most knowledgeable of carver connoisseurs. A bear John Schultz carved in a little over an hour sold for over $1200!
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Cabin Fever Carvings A Classy Presentation of Some More Outstanding Carvings.
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