Vince Skelly, Sculpture Artist

"I don't really consider myself a woodworker, more of a sculptor mostly because I'm carving these forms in a reductive process and traditionally, woodworking is more of an additive process that requires lots of tools and precision. But what I'm doing is kind of the opposite of that.

I'm carving in a very gestural way. So to me carving feels like I'm painting. I rarely do sketches on paper. So I'm pretty much just sketching with the chainsaw which is leading to improvisation and the results you can get from that are way more exciting to me because they're usually things that I never would have come up with.

A year into it it became clear that what I was doing was bringing in my interest in megalithic structures, you know these ancient things called dolmens and mid-century design and kind of melding these two forms and aesthetics. That's kind of what's become my visual language."