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Because he loves forest and magnifies it for years with fine wooden everyday objects, Guillaume Ougier wanted to share his artistic and philosophical approach with us through his book Sculpter la forêt (Sculpting forest). The woodcarver invites the reader to ramble and to contemplate the forests to be in symbiosis with them. To better understand […]

Trained as a cabinetmaker, Thierry Martenon was born in the massif of the Chartreuse and has no longer left that region since then. As a child, he sculpted his toys, finding inspiration in the nature and with his grand-father, sawyer, and his uncle, wood artisan.   Forest still inspired Thierry Martenon and now provides him […]

Pascal Oudet is a wood artist working and living near Grenoble in the French Alps. By working on carefully selected oaks, he creates on the lathe very thin pieces he sandblasts up to transparency, creating a real lace out of wood which emphasizes all the history of the trees he’s working with.   This unique […]

Twelve artists have been invited to Chaumont-sur-Loire for this new Art and Nature season, over which dream and poetry are set to reign supreme. Among those artists, the wood sculptor Christian Renonciat has become a master in the art of sublimating materials. After studying philosophy in the Sorbonne, Christian Renonciat learns wooden crafts in an […]

During the 2018 Vinitech trade show edition, the Groupe Charlois invited Sébastien Geslin to share his passion and his unique know-how on its stand.

As Joel Dasvin likes to say, he “came to stone carving, or perhaps the other way around. “Installed in his workshop in Chaulgnes, Joel Dasvin, stonemason, mostly works in direct size.