Caryl Oliver​

I came to crafting late after a full sporting life as a  fencer representing both Great Britain and Australia as well as working in marketing, tourism and tertiary education.   
I started idly doing very simple wood carving using the offcuts from the floor of the bellows maker’s shed.   I then started to carve image outlines and fill the shapes with resin and sold my first piece at the Swire Art Prize Exhibition.
I discovered a hollow log I thought it would be fun to build images in the empty space.  The challenge was to work out how to turn a liquid into a solid layer on which to build in a space with no top or bottom!  Once the first layer is set I can then build scenes and clocks layer by layer.
More recently I have had fun building scenes using foraged bark.  It still amazes me that I can generally see what I want to do the minute I look at a piece of wood! 
It is a slow process and challenging because there is no undoing mistakes but I love the mindfulness of creativity and the fact that others like my work enough to actually buy it!



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