Harvey Welch

Harvey Welch

Harvey Welch Harvey Welch started carving in 1986 and became a full time carver after retiring from the Saskatoon Board of Education in 1991. Harvey is primarily a wildlife carver with a major focus on all species of birds. He shows his work at carving shows across...
Ivan Wasylyshen

Ivan Wasylyshen

Ivan Wasylyshen My inspiration began several years ago with a simple, natural edge aspen bowl purchased at a Montreal gallery. Shortly afterwards when I expressed interest in woodturning, my wife bought me a lathe for my 50th birthday. I soon began experimenting with...
Jack Wylie

Jack Wylie

Jack Wylie Spending much of my life involved in the lumber industry, I have always had an interest in woodworking. Lathe work caught my eye many years ago, so once my kids grew up, I bought my first lathe. I started turning pens and then, being an avid hunter, I...
Jean-Marie Fogarty

Jean-Marie Fogarty

Jean-Marie Fogarty Growing up in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec, I always had an interest in working with wood. In 1953, I moved to Regina and after twenty years of earning a living as a salesman, I returned to school, improved my skills as a cabinetmaker and home...
Jim Mason

Jim Mason

Jim Mason Mason is a self-taught wood carver who enjoys creating unique and compelling pieces of art that capture the warmth that wood, as a medium, offers. Currently his passion lies in creating one of a kind fish and other subjects carved from yellow cedar and...