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Each piece celebrates the inherent quality of the wood; the grain, the form, the smell, the touch, the way the light catches the undercuts and the shadows that are cast across the workbench.
The limitless interplay between individual sculptures gives rise to playful exploration and new visual and emotional relationships, as the juxtaposition between forms changes.
Rolf Hook ... Sculptor
I have come a long way to combine the character and beauty of a piece (a tree) with my idea. Both coalesce and pure, perhaps figurative form evolves, telling the story of origin, presence and fineness.
After school and college Rolf trained for 5 more years in fine woodworking, graduating with a master’s degree. He received several prestigious awards, culminating in the State Award in Arts and Crafts- in the Rhineland-Palatinate. His biggest sculpture (5tons in all), a memorial, sits in Irelands most famous ‘Muckross House, Killarney National Park.
Rolf produces work all the time, some work takes years other work is accomplished in days.
Once finished and finally ready it is sold, or goes into exhibitions.
Otherwise he mainly works on a commission basis with people who enjoy an interchange between sculptor and client.
Thereby their own trees, perhaps fallen, come into play to live on in another form.
