sculptures of hands

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.

Featuring stripes of orange and off-white, this fish will make a beautiful addition to your home or beach cottage. Ghanaian artisan Awudu Saaed hand-carves this sculpture from sese wood and paints it by hand. A clay rub gives this sculpture a rustic finish.

With poised elegance, a goldfish becomes an object of admiration as a sculpture from Eka. The fish is carved by hand from suar wood with admirable detail to the gills, fins and face, resulting in a vivid sculpture.

Leaping out of the water, this charming fish will make the perfect addition to your home or beach cottage. Ghanaian artisan Awudu Saaed hand-carves this sculpture from sese wood, painted in tones of brown and blue. A clay rub gives the sculpture a rustic finish.

Looking for its next meal, a sleek hammerhead shark adds the elegance of the sea to your home. In memory of the late artisan Putra Suteja, Eka presents this striking sculpture, which is hand-carved of jempinis wood by local artisans.

Sleek sese wood and richly textured aluminum repoussé come to life as a fish. Carved by hand, this elegant sculpture is designed by Anna Yawson. She names it Chiley – a local name among the Ga people for a type of redfish.

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.

Hand-carved from Balinese albesia wood, two friendly zebra fish in black and white swim side-by-side on a tabletop or shelf. Togog Suyasa carves the whimsical pair, with a large fish and a smaller one. Floating atop stands, the sculptures receive an aged finish.

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.