sculpture display

Capturing the sensuous allure of the sirens, Gordon Adu handcrafts this mythical mermaid. Her features are on full display with the careful process of carving sese wood by hand. Half fish and half human, this sculpture be a conversation piece for your home.

The perfect addition to your condo or beach cottage, this delightful sculpture from Mexico depicts a stunning conch shell that can also be displayed on a wall. Crafted from ceramic, the conch features colourful floral motifs and other designs that are diligently painted by hand in the Talavera style. Juana Ponce creates this piece of decor.

With colorful flowers blossoming on its shell, this turtle captivates with psychedelic artistry. Zeny and Reyna craft this endearing alebrije sculpture with techniques inherited from their parents. They carve a found piece of copal wood into the statuette and proceed to paint it with hand crafted artistry.

Alebrijes are a fairly recent Mexican art form, attributed to Pedro Linares. Unconscious due to illness in 1936, he was presumed near death and yet his dreams were extremely vivid. He tells of a place where all was peaceful and quiet until all of a sudden there appeared a lion with an eagle’s head, a rooster with bull's horns and a donkey with butterfly wings. They kept screeching "alebrije, alebrije!" and Ricardo began running away. He encountered a man who told him it was not yet his time to be there are and he should continue running towards the exit. In this dream Pedro climbed out of a window and regained consciousness. He made paper replicas of these creatures to show everyone, and soon others began to craft other "monster-like" creatures in bright colors.

A beautiful mermaid with long brown hair poses beneath the crescent moon. Mexican artisan J. Blas cuts and shapes the image by hand for wall display.

A beautiful mermaid with long brown hair stretches to catch purple butterflies. Mexican artisan J. Blas cuts and shapes the image by hand for wall display.

A shorebird with black and white feathers as well as a long beak, the black-necked stilt is a common sight along American coastlines. Balinese artisan Nengah Sudarsana creates this decorative accent, carved from albesia wood into the species's likeness and given a hand-painted finish in black and white. This accent is displayed atop an iron rod and a whitewashed base of suar wood.