Jan Piotr Ledwon

janfigures.jpg (84131 bytes) Jan (pronounced "Yan") Piotr Ledwon is an internationally recognized, award-winning, self-taught wood carver. In the kitchen of his apartment, in the city of Bielsko-Biala in southern Poland, he carves sensitive, free-standing and wall-mounted figures and signs. He uses around 20 different chisels to carve his pieces from dry linden wood. They are finished with either shellac or wax. His expressive sculptures can be found in many international collections.

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 For more information, see "Polish Carving: Where Ideas Take Form," in Wood Carving, March/April 2001: 56-59. You may contact him (in Polish) at:


ul. Lenartowicza 37/22
43-300 Bielsko-Biala
Poland
Telephone: 011 48 33 814 51 62

LINKS:
Polish Wood Carver, Czeslaw Olma     
Polish Icon Maker, Dr. Miroslaw Mrozowski     
Silva Foundation Workshops in Lisbon, Portugal   
Marquetry of Granada, Spain   
Religious sculpture in Seville, Spain
Haida wood carver, Reg Davidson
Haida painter, James Sawyer
Mexican wood carver, Fernando Giron Pantoja
Mexican marquetry box maker, José Antonio Rodríguez
Wood carving in Foumban, Cameroon, Africa 
Wood Carving in Bali, Indonesia 
Horn Carving in Bali, Indonesia
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