Carved out

Julien Feller is a Belgian born sculptor. Julien studied for three years at the Institut Saint-Luc of Tournai where he succeeded brilliantly, having received multiple prizes from his art academy. While studying Julien trained under the carver Master Patrice Degand, who introduced the art of carving to the young man. In 2019, he was awarded from the Belgian foundation VOCATIO and on the international stage have been recommended by Michelangelo Foundation to be part of HomoFaber Guide. 

Meanwhile, Julien had influential encounters that brought him multiple time out of Belgium to collaborate as for having exhibitions. Place that lead him to United State Of America, United Kingdom or notorious show as De Mains De Maitres in Luxembourg. 

Established sculptor since 2017, Julien learned his carving technics in a very exigeant way. Indeed following the research on Grinling Gibbons and the school of micro-carvers from the XIVth century, Julien developed a very personal way to create lace in a trompe-l'oeil using traditional tools and technic. Yet, the masterpiece of the young carver remains his wooden replica of the Brussels’ lace produced in 2018. 

Today Julien is mostly influenced by the art of Renaissance from Italy as well as Grinling Gibbons’ work from 17th century. He aspires the discipline to work applied by great masters such as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Ghiberti and some other great masters of the same period; they all are a true reference to him; not only he admires them and he is also inspired by them in his creations. 

Since 2018 Julien is developing is own lace pattern. He is combining his knowledge for ornament and research made across history to create new unique model. The carved lace he is sculpting are lace model that doesn't exist as real and Julien is making sure to make his composition unique. 

 

 

David Esterly’s carving has been called “some of the most astonishing work being done in wood today” (Fine Woodworking). It is in the tradition of Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), whose spectacular cascades of flowers, fruits and foliage revolutionized ornamental sculpture during the age of Christopher Wren. 

After the 1986 fire at Hampton Court Palace, Esterly was asked to step into the shoes of this long-dead master when he was commissioned to replace the seven foot-long Gibbons carving destroyed in the flames. At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1998-9 he curated the first ever Gibbons exhibition, and wrote the accompanying book, Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving. In 2002, as a guest artist at the American Academy in Rome, he produced the first of his Arcimboldesque heads.

These carved works are so wonderful by Carsten Nilsson