G.P. Reichelt

G.P. Reichelt

Handmade Wood Art

I use different kinds of materials to create my objects, but in the end they all have one thing in common: Light. Light makes them what they are and brings out their beauty. Only light can bring out the transparency and shimmering color of an opalescent glass lampshade. A photograph is a split second of light, forever captured. The right light gives woodcarvings more texture and depth, adding an aesthetic dimension otherwise impossible to achieve.
I became fascinated with light when I was very young and I found ways of using it in my work. I learned to understand and master it and use it in very different ways to highlight my creations.

There is a considerable number of “animal collectors”. Usually they focus on a single animal, hedgehog, pig, elephant and then ask, can this animal be bought from the puzzle? That's not possible, of course, because then an ensemble would be destroyed. So at some point I started to carve individual animals out of leftovers and pieces of wood that weren't suitable for jigsaw puzzles.

I only really started carving with the puzzles. In the beginning it was only simple laying games, which were then soon supplemented by 2 to 4-layer ark puzzle. If you didn't set the animal outlines as the outer limit, you could carve objects with 10,000 pieces without any problems.

There are endless ways to hide your little memories from the eyes of the curious. I wanted to playfully approach this possibility with a few animal caskets. Who would dare steal a treasure guarded by a crocodile?

Even if they are "carved" out of wood, I can't get anything out of most cribs. I wanted to carve a nativity scene that would be simple, appealing and still a puzzle. I think I succeeded.

With these objects I left the “carving” to the termites. The only question left for me was how I would separate the pieces of wood from the whole work of the termites.

Unfortunately, I only have a very limited number of customers for carved objects. In order to prevent the mountain of unsold carvings from getting any bigger, I have started to deal with topics that were originally intended to be “unsaleable”, but which made me want to be realized in carved form.