A selection of crafts

The variety is exciting, the creativity is rewarding, and bringing it to life is the true gift.

Two tall pine planks carved clean through with interlaced tendrils and beasts, a slender half-column and capital running down the inner edge of each.

The Ulvik portal

A reconstruction of the medieval Ulvik stave church portal, which dates back to around the year 1150..

 The Ulvik portal →
The dragon head from the prow, jaws open over carved fangs above a scaled neck, beside the stern post curling into a tight spiral banded with interlace.

Dragon head and tail for the Myklebust ship

Carved as the prow and stern for the reconstruction of the Myklebust ship — the largest Viking ship ever traced in Norway, some 30 metres long.

 Dragon head and tail for the Myklebust ship →
A relief in lime: a man in a flat cap and work jacket leans out from stacked timber and sawmill framing cut in the same block.

Georg at the Sawmill

A relief portrait of Georg — the sawmill man and industry-builder behind Saga in Tønsberg — carved among the heavy timber of his trade..

 Georg at the Sawmill →
A relief in lime: a man in an open shirt walks across a ploughed field casting seed from his bag, with birds on the ground and mountains behind.

The Sower

A man walks the ploughed field, casting the seed out in an arc.

 The Sower →
A relief in lime: a man with a paraffin lamp walks down a steep slope towards a transformer on a pole, with spruce forest, mountains and a lake behind.

Avløysing

Johan i Fjellja was the last in the valley to get electricity.

 Avløysing →
A pointer carved in birch and painted brown and white, standing on point on a base of grass.

Pointer

The bird dog stands on point: head thrust forward, body tense, tail straight out behind..

 Pointer →
[ The Stag on the Crown ]

The Stag on the Crown

A British family crest, a stag’s head on a crown, carved as a sculpture in birch from the farm at Taraldset.

 The Stag on the Crown →
[ Jens Petter Ekornes ]

Jens Petter Ekornes

 Jens Petter Ekornes →