Video: Wicker wood installations from Alastair Heseltine
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There are many people who work with wood. They are amateurs, carve and do various wooden crafts for their own interest and entertainment, to create their own comfort and variety of the interior. But there are not so many who can really be called professionals and craftsmen of wood carving, and among their ranks it is necessary to mention the name of the Canadian artist Alastair Heseltine.
Earlier, in one of our articles, we talked about one talented master - the Italian Livio De Marchi, who lives in the wooden world, since everything around him is made exclusively of wood by himself, by his skillful hands. Another person who creates incredible installations from the same material is Canadian Alastair Heseltine. Unlike the Italian artist, Alastair Heseltine prefers to create large-scale installations using the weaving technique.
We know very little about the artist himself, only that he lives in the north-west of Canada, where nature itself inspires him to create, giving wonderful material for the embodiment of his fantasies and suggesting images and ideas. Alastair Heseltine loves to work with natural and living materials such as wood. In his hands, logs and branches come to life, giving birth to the graceful figure of a sleeping woman, a huge bird, beautiful vases of the finest work, wicker tables and benches. Using traditional materials, techniques and methods, Alastair Heseltine has reached the fore in the art of wood weaving.
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