Hi! Coop & Katrina here. We are wood carvers!
Coop has been a wood carver for over 40 years. Katrina does wood burnings on some of his symbols...and when bored, has been known to create new symbols for him to carve…and has started carving her own! We live out on the edge of the East Texas Piney Woods with a wonderful senior black lab rescue named HU and a sweet muted calico cat Feisty.
When we aren’t home, all of us are traveling across the country to Renaissance Faires, Celtic festivals, and art shows.
From Coop:
Long ago I realized that carving is a form of meditation. I am burning these images into my consciousness 16 hours a day.
As an act of self-defense, I made a decision to limit my carving to symbols evoking light, love, peace, exhilaration, freedom, liberty, ecstasy, and the creator of the universe. I spend my life focusing on positive symbols and meeting people that are attracted to them. It just gets better all the time.
I believe that spirituality brings us together in love, rather than isolating us in condescension and self righteousness.
Please view my work as a grateful expression of my love of life and creation. May it bring joy to your day.
And this is Katrina...
I was blessed in 2006 to lose my job, have a friend that brought me to the wonderful Maryland Renaissance Faire, where Coop's friend brought me into his world. As our friendship, love, and lives deepen together, he is encouraging me to develop as an artist. So his wonderful pieces that have wood burning on them, and many of our new symbols, are my attempts at creations of light, love, peace, exhilaration, freedom, liberty, ecstasy, and the creator of the universe.
While doing preparing pictures for our website offering wood carvings, Katrina had to spend a lot of time photoshopping pictures of our carvings. Some of the knots came out incredible and the thought occurred…I could use this on tee-shirts to where at Celtic and Irish festivals…and the digital hunt began!
