elephants wooden

Decorated with brilliant colors and an elaborate robe, Ashish Mehta's royal elephant sculpture is truly one of a kind. The Indian artisan hand crafts the sculpture from neem wood, carving wild animals--lions, elephants, and deer--onto the surface. Blue, red, green, orange, copper and gold paint shine against the sculpture's black base.

The grandeur of an elephant dressed in elegant robes to participate in royal a parade is the theme selected by Indian artisan Ashish Mehta for a figurine that distills glamour and allure. The shimmering gold hue gives an air of splendor to the elephant figurine hand-carved from kadam wood and embellished with red, green, white and black motifs painted by hand.

Directly from the majestic lands of India, Neelima Gupta's newest wall art draws inspiration from the traditions and legends of the region. The artist uses marble dust to create a breathtaking scene between a spring tree and a sacred elephant, whose tender trunk finds food in the green leaves growing all around the composition. Neelima uses oil in a vibrant palette to add color to her creation, making it a marvelous piece of art framed with neem wood.

Evelyn Kafui Ahianyo draws inspiration from nature to design a precious sese wood wall art. Hand-painted in Ghana with brown, black and green tones, this decorative item features typical animals of African wildlife: a tender elephant and a cheerful giraffe.

Inspired by the ideologies of people like Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghanaian artisan Akwele Suma hand-crafts a lovely beaded pendant necklace recreating nature, animals and humans living together in harmony as a symbol of justice and peace. A collection of lovely charms depicting people, trees, fish, elephants, birds, houses, the globe and a pendant of the scales of justice are handmade from recycled cardboard, detailed with ink, knotted onto a silk cord and topped with sese wood beads.