Project description
I am looking for a woodcarver to make a wall panel for my living room, to hang above a chest of drawers. The size is roughly 60 by 90 centimetres, vertical. Lime or alder are both fine by me, whichever you cut more comfortably. I would like low relief carving with a plant motif: a winding stem, leaves turned at different angles, two or three open buds, and a background lowered softly instead of being stepped down in hard terraces. From three metres away the pattern should read as one clear shape; up close it should reward a second look, with rounded edges, honest tool marks and a varying depth of cut.
The light in the room comes from the side, from a window on the left and a wall lamp, so depth matters to me more than tiny detail. The panel should come alive under raking light rather than look like a flat picture. Finish: oil with a light tint, matte, no gloss and no varnish, a warm tone slightly deeper than bare wood. The edge is your call, a narrow frame or a clean rounded border, but please show both options on the sketch.
Two conditions are not negotiable. The drawing must be your own, or built from freely licensed sources; we do not copy someone else's carving from a photograph. And the piece will be heavy while the wall is solid masonry, so it goes up on anchors with a safety margin, never on a nail. The hanger is concealed and holds the panel with a gap from the wall, because solid wood keeps moving with dry indoor air; for the same reason the board must be glued up from several staves with alternating grain rather than cut from one wide plank.
What I expect from you:
— a scaled sketch of the pattern, two or three layouts to choose from;
— a test fragment carved in the same wood, so we can agree on depth, background texture and tone;
— a glued-up panel with sealed end grain and checked geometry;
— a concealed hanger with a wall gap and anchor hardware suitable for solid masonry;
— an oiled finish with a tint sample approved before the whole surface is done;
— packing and handover in about two weeks; the budget we settle once the sketch is agreed.
The light in the room comes from the side, from a window on the left and a wall lamp, so depth matters to me more than tiny detail. The panel should come alive under raking light rather than look like a flat picture. Finish: oil with a light tint, matte, no gloss and no varnish, a warm tone slightly deeper than bare wood. The edge is your call, a narrow frame or a clean rounded border, but please show both options on the sketch.
Two conditions are not negotiable. The drawing must be your own, or built from freely licensed sources; we do not copy someone else's carving from a photograph. And the piece will be heavy while the wall is solid masonry, so it goes up on anchors with a safety margin, never on a nail. The hanger is concealed and holds the panel with a gap from the wall, because solid wood keeps moving with dry indoor air; for the same reason the board must be glued up from several staves with alternating grain rather than cut from one wide plank.
What I expect from you:
— a scaled sketch of the pattern, two or three layouts to choose from;
— a test fragment carved in the same wood, so we can agree on depth, background texture and tone;
— a glued-up panel with sealed end grain and checked geometry;
— a concealed hanger with a wall gap and anchor hardware suitable for solid masonry;
— an oiled finish with a tint sample approved before the whole surface is done;
— packing and handover in about two weeks; the budget we settle once the sketch is agreed.
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