Patrick Imai
Patrick Imai is a self-taught sculptor who has carved for more than 40 years. He has dabbled in other art forms: sketching, painting and stained glass, but he always returned to carving. He carved in wood, whittling tiny animals and figures with a pocket knife or with palm chisels, then in the late 90’s, Patrick tried stone carving. He was hooked by the ease of working with soapstone and by the colours and texture of the polished stone. He has since carved alabaster, serpentine, limestone, selenite and marble. Patrick has a passion for carving bears. He works to capture emotion and movement in his carvings.
Patrick is a member of Arteast, the Kanata Civic Art Gallery and the National Capital Network of Sculptors.
Danny Barber
Danny has been working as a stone carver for over 30 years. His first introduction was at the family memorial business in St. Catharines Ontario. He moved to England in 2002 to pursue a career in architectural stone carving and from there settled in Ottawa Ontario. In 2010 Danny organized the first Canadian Stone Carving Festival with help from the Winchester Downtown Revitalization Committee. With a vision of Building Craft Fellowship, Raising Public Awareness of the Craft and supporting Charity, Danny has continued to organize the event with much help and support from colleagues and friends for 14 years and counting. The CSCF has raised over $100,000.00 for charity thus far. Danny works for the federal Government on the Dominion Sculptor Team and runs a small stone carving studio in Ottawa offering custom stone carving commissions as well as stone carving courses and workshops. www.barberstonecarving.com
Sonia Chow
Sonia Chow makes objects, experiences, and installations. Her practice blurs the imaginary boundaries between art, craft and design. A design career of over 20 years had her based in Toronto, Tokyo and Hong Kong. She designed and built art suites of ice and snow for Icehotel Sweden with her partner (2016, 2018, 2022), and was artist-in-residence at Centre for Craft Nova Scotia’s wood studio (2022-23) and at the Textile Museum of Canada (2024). This is her first experience carving stone.
Sean Williams
Sean Williams is a an artist based in Barre, Vermont working primarily in stone. Since graduating with a BFA from UPenn in 2009, he has completed a range of public and private commissions, and was the 2022-23 sculptor in residence at the Saint Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, NH.
Robert Lefrancois
Philippe Smith
John-Philippe Smith has worked as a stone carver on Parliament Hill since the restoration of the library in 2001. Along with his friend and colleague Danny Barber, their company Smith & Barber – Sculpture Atelier Inc. completed hundreds moulded and sculpted stones for the restoration of the West Block. He currently works full-time for the Federal Government as assistant sculptor to the Dominion Sculptor, Phil White.
Marie Lyne Phare
My name is Marie Lyne Phare. I teached art to children and I have a master in art teaching. I finished a DEP in Stone carving this years. I have so many things to learn about carving and it will be a marvellous opportunity to do it in this occasion.
Heng Wee Tan
Jeff David
I live and work in Kansas City. I try to make time to stone carve a few weekends a year.
Tori David
I live in Las Vegas Nevada and this is my first trip to Canada.
Richard Désautels
Artisan tailleur de pierre spécialisé en patrimoineDEP en taille de pierre, 2021AEC en Métiers d’Art du patrimoine bâti, 2022
Simon Vincent
Been stone carving since a year now. Really feel « sur mon X » I just love it.
Eugene Jankowski
Alexandre Maquet
André Gamache
Marcelin Fortin
James Galbraith
Jack Hodasy
I am a brick and stone mason from Paris Ontario, I work for Hodasy Masonry Ltd as a foreman and design consultant with Benabec Architectural Precast. Passionate about the work I do and always looking to expand my craft.
Nicholas Thompson
Nicholas Thompson trained as a stonecarver at City & Guilds Art School in London, England. After working in the restoration industry, he is currently an assistant to the Dominion Sculptor in Ottawa.
Maxime Picard
J’ai débuté l’apprentissage de mon métier de Tailleur de pierre en 2001 à Saint-Hyacinthe. C’est ensuite en 2004 que j’ai obtenu le diplôme du D.E.P. Taille de pierre. J’ai ensuite poursuivi mon travail dans le métier jusqu’en 2010, moment où j’ai eu l’opportunité de devenir enseignant du D.E.P. Taille de pierre au CFP Le Granit à Lac-Mégantic. J’ai obtenu le baccalauréat en enseignement professionnel à l’Université de Sherbrooke en 2021. En 2023, j’ai débuté un nouveau défi que je poursuis toujours, comme superviseur dans l’entreprise A. Lacroix Granit, à St-Sébastien dans la MRC du Granit. Nous réalisons différents projets d’envergure dans le marché nord-américain. Principalement des projets architecturaux mais aussi des monuments historiques, des aménagements urbains et des projets de restauration d’édifices. Aujourd’hui, je viens sculpter avec plusieurs personnes super, mais aussi je souhaite dédier mon oeuvre à mon ancien enseignant, ancien collègue de travail et ami qui nous a quittés en 2023, Jean-François Lacroix.
Simon Larochelle
Serge Pelletier
George Moldovan
George Moldovan is an accomplished artist and sculptor with a keen proficiency in traditional and contemporary figurative work. “I enjoy working in classic sculptural mediums such as bronze, stone terracotta and wood, and have exhibited my work around the world.”
Justin Stahlman
Stonemason & draftsman for architectural stone in Montreal.
Austin Emery
Eric Clarke
Eric has only been carving stone since walking past the Carving Festival in 2017 and signing up with Danny Barber for his Introduction to Stone Carving course.
Since then he has participated in the festivals each year and continues to sculpt as time permits – and still takes classes with Danny (‘Rock School!’). Prior to stone as a medium, Eric has dabbled in blacksmithing and sculpting with metal, light, and found objects – often making a bouquet of red roses with antique glass doorknobs, creatures from cutlery, and using natural materials to create unique gifts. Eric also restores antique tools – and puts them to thier intended usage – including collecting, restoring, and using antique straight razors, forging and shaping equipment, and numerous hand tools.
James Cook
Craig Potter
Craig Potter became a self-taught, researched and practiced stone carver for masonry restoration in Halifax, Nova Scotia where Craig began cutting, carving and repairing building elements using materials such as sandstone and granite. Repairing historical carvings piqued Craig’s interest and he started carving outside of work.
His first Canadian Stove Carving Festival was in 2015 and has only missed one since.
While technically capable, Craig wants to practice and work towards learning to emote and communicate ideas better… more “artistically”.
Enjoying the patience and understanding of his spouse and neighbours, Craig maintains an unreasonably disproportionate sized stone yard at home and took over the shed to pursue stone carving. Noise and dust be darned!
Susan Conner
Susan Conner has been sculpting marble and granite pieces for collectors, institutions, sporting events and corporations for over 30 years. She strives to make each sculpture an enduring individual piece of art that can be enjoyed for years to come. Each one is hand carved and polished. ”My intention is to inspire myself, evoke memories from the stone, co-create with my clients, and best describe with this great and ancient medium, what their needs are in granite and marble.”
Don Lewis
Don was introduced to stone carving by Toronto sculptor John Fillion while studying drawing at the University of Guelph in 1980. He completed a number of works and although he fell in love with the bite of the chisel and the power and permanence of the stone he ultimately put that feeling aside to pursue a 30 year career as a biologist. That feeling was never lost and there was always a small whisper in the back of his mind calling him back. He has recently returned to this love and is now devoting much of his time trying to capture the power of nature and the human spirit through stone carving and sculpting.
Alexandre Barnes
Alexandre Barnes took a professional Stone Carving course in 2008 – 2009 at the Centre de Formation Professionnel de lac Mégantic. Since then he has been working in the stone industry making stone mouldings and architectural elements. Alexandre has also been sculpting and carving as a hobby for the past 12 years. ” This is my 5th time taking part in the Canadian Stone Carving Festival. I really love to see the other sculptors work beside me and I try to pick up some of their tricks and apply them to my own work.”
Caroline Guay
Caroline Guay is a Conservation Technologist who has had the privilege of working on numerous buildings within the Parliamentary Precinct for over 30 years. She has been carving since 2017 when she started taking classes from Danny Barber. This is her fourth year participating in the Canadian Stone Carving Festival, and she will be carving a Lewis chessman berserker.
Ellie Bloxham
Ellie has been carving since 2011. She fell in love with stone carving during her first stone carving course taken in the shadows of the impressive Lincoln Cathedral in the UK and has continued ever since. During her residence in Cambridge, Ellie continued to learn to carve with sculptor Esther Melamed and also took courses with Eric Marland and Tom Perkins through the Lettering Arts Trust in the art of Letter Carving, a natural transition from her love of calligraphy. The stone seems to give a greater credence to the words of phrases selected, perhaps honouring a person, evoking a memory or simply lightening a corner of a garden with a peaceful or humorous choice of phrase. Ellie also likes to sculpt the human form – it is the possibility that stone can evoke an emotion and/or movement that intrigues her. All of her work is hand carved.
Siteweb : https://bloxhamstudio.ca/
Justine Southam
Justine Southam is a blacksmith living in North Hatley Quebec. She has been carving stone since 2016 when she began an apprenticeship at Smith & Barber – Sculpture Atelier Inc. during her third year of the heritage conservation program at Willowbank. This is her third participation in the Canadian Stone Carving Festival.
Jordan Clements
Jordan Clements carves stone in Ontario. His studio is in Port Perry. This is his fifth Canadian Stone Carving Festival. @clementscutstone
Debbie Soriano
An engineer by trade, Debbie started taking stone carving classes in 2021 with Michèle Lavoie to explore her creative side. Stone carving is now her favourite hobby. This is her first time participating in the Canadian Stone Carving Festival.
Tiffany Folmeg
Tiffany Folmeg is a sculptor, printmaker and photographer residing in New Tecumseth, Ontario. Her practice has primarily consisted of traditional hand-tool techniques within stone carving and woodblock printing for majority of her artist career. The primary focus has been representing mental health through anatomical structures to evoke a connection with the audience and resonate the importance of self-care. She welcomes an open dialog around her works to support the community through providing education and resources for the betterment of humanity. Tiffany is also fortunate to teach secondary school in York Region, Ontario fulfilling her role as a Head of Arts, and being inspired by the creative youth of today!
Austin Emery
Canadian born (from Ottawa), lived, trained and worked as an architectural stone carver/mason/sculptor in the UK for 30 years.
My work now is mostly focussed on creating public stone sculptures through the process of open and free community stone carving workshops.
My work now is mostly focussed on creating public stone sculptures through the process of open and free community stone carving workshops.
Nicole Steele
I am a technologist who works in Architecture.
My interests are in Heritage Architecture and door Hardware.
I was inspired to pursue stone carving by working with stone masons during my day to day work.
I hope to inspire other people to explore this wonderful trade.
My interests are in Heritage Architecture and door Hardware.
I was inspired to pursue stone carving by working with stone masons during my day to day work.
I hope to inspire other people to explore this wonderful trade.
Mike Sheard
Sophia Rocco
Alexandre Maquet
Simon Vincent
