E SCULPTING - Key Persons
Ed Roth has a fierce dedication to his craft, designing, sculpting and woodcarving, which led him to start A&E Sculpting and Paint Studio, now based in Los Alamitos, California. He is the most prolific master wood carver of his generation. His massive body of work and artistry is unmatched by another carver today.
At age five Ed discovered his desire to draw and make sculptures. As a young teenager he custom-shaped a squadron of bicycles for his friends using polyester body filler. During high school Ed worked at an antique refinishing shop where he learned the art of refinishing and repairing furniture. At the age of eighteen he opened his own refinishing business with a friend. That's when a carousel collector brought an entire carousel to be stripped and repaired. Ed was captivated by the ornate artistry of those horses. Three years later he started carving full time recreating the work of the turn-of-the-century carvers.
Ed's productions gained national attention and growing renown within the National Carousel Association when he carved the first fifty-foot carousel since the late 1920's for Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York, the twelfth oldest amusement park in the world. Their original carousel was consumed in a fire in March 1995. In 1999 he carved all of the custom figures and trim for the Disney Tokyo Caravan Carousel. The next five years he honed his skills carving on various projects for the Walt Disney Company. Two of his favorite projects were carving ninety feet of Mahogany panels celebrating Roosevelt's life for the Teddy Roosevelt's Lounge located in Tokyo Disney, Japan, and the entrance to Mickey's Philharmagic in Hong Kong Disney.