Creative Woodworks & Crafts-059-1998-Fall, страница 47

Wayne Barton, Carver

by Ivan Whillock

In the preface to his first book, Wayne Barton wrote, "As a small child, I sat at my grandfather's knee and watched him do magical and wonderful things to pieces of wood with bis pocket knife. Then one day he called me Lo his side and put a P| W:^y'/ i jfl pocket knife of my very own in my "■. hand. I was thrilled, I was five years

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Just as his grandfather introduced Wayne Barton to wood carving, Wayne himself has done much to introduce the elegant Swiss slyle of chip carving Lo contemporary American carvers. In 1933, he wrote a series of articles for Chip Chats, lhe magazine of the Naliona] Wood Carvers Association, and soon thereafter published his first book, Chip Cawing Techniques and Patterns (Sterling, 1984). Two books and numerous magazine articles have followed.

Wayne took his formal training in Brienz, Switzerland. Although he is versed in ail disciplines of caning, Wayne specializes in Kerbschnitzen (Swiss for chip carving) and has won national and international acclaim for his work.

Wayne is the founder and director of the Alpine School of Woodcarving, Ltd., and devotes much of his time to teaching. He travels throughout North America and Switzerland conducting chip carving workshops. Readers can obtain a schedule of Wayne Barton's workshops by writing to the Alpine School of Woodcarving, Ltd., 225 Vine Ave., Park Ridge, IL 60068, or by calling (708) 692-2822.

Wayne presently resides in Park Ridge, Illinois with his Swiss wife Marlies and their children. !ri

Shown above are just a few examples of Wayne's magnificent chip-carving projects."

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