DANCE HILL COLLECTION

Dance Hill Collection came about more by accident than by design. One day while surfing the web I happened to come across a Shona sculpture, in stone, created by the hands of a Zimbabwean artist. I was immediately intrigued by the artistry, the craftsmanship, the imagination. Initially I wanted to import and sell Shona sculpture, exposing more people to this wonderful art; but that plan did not materialize and I ended up taking up sculpting stone... After a relatively short time working with stone I started carving wood. It wasn't that I had exhausted the possibilities of stone - I wasn't even close to doing that, but I figured wood should perhaps be a little easier to manage in some respects. I started collecting wood from anywhere along the street where trees were being cut down. In short order I had collected a variety of woods. Black Locust wood was the first kind of wood I started carving; it turned out to be one of the hardest and toughest American woods! But I was rewarded with..

Primary location: Alpharetta United States