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Dmitriy Chekuchinov

  • Wood sculptor
  • Dubrovitsy, Russia
  • Master Artisan
Dmitriy Chekuchinov Wood sculptor
Contact
Russian, English
Hours:
Monday to Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Phone:
+7 9160691975
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Fascinated by wood

  • • Dmitriy's first project was a set of dressers
  • • He is glad when people want to learn his craft
  • • He recommends learning from masters

Dmitriy Chekuchinov has had a classic education. He was determined to become a master woodworker, he learned artistic woodworking at Abramtsevsky College of Design and Applied Arts, then studied furniture design at Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts. From his alma maters he inherited the love for traditional style and diversified Russian culture. He takes his work very seriously: “From the outside, it seems that what I do is easy. In reality, there is a long search for artistic identity, physical traumas, and other things.” Dmitriy believes that making a piece of furniture or a sculpture is interesting at all stages, but sketching and making prototypes particularly draws him in. He also teaches adults different woodcarving techniques and toy-making.

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Works

  • © Aleksandr Kamachkin
  • © Dmitriy Chekuchinov
  • © Elena Semina
  • © Dmitriy Chekuchinov
Photo: © Aleksandr Kamachkin
Thistle dresser

This dresser is made in Abramtsevsky style: its shape, colour and decoration carry traditional cultural code. It has a big back panel with applied carving in the form of thistle bushes. The edge of the table top is decorated with geometric carvings. The chest of drawers has six drawers on wooden runners with flower and rhombus-shaped fronts. The front legs are chiselled with carvings and resemble thistle buds. It is painted in bright colours.

Length 186 cm
Width 43 cm
Height 75 cm

Photo: © Dmitriy Chekuchinov
Small Abramtsevo dresser

This dresser is a younger brother of the big Thistle dresser, it is made in traditional Russian style. In this compact version I managed to maintain the ideal proportions. It is made of solid spruce and birch plywood, it has four drawers on wooden runners with rhombus-shaped facades. The crown-shaped back panel is adorned with a carved overlay. The front legs are chiselled.

Length 126 cm
Width 53 cm
Height 125 cm

Photo: © Elena Semina
Northern horse on wheels

This horse on wheels is decorated with carved ornament imitating the mane and saddle, painted black, polished and covered with oil. The wheels are made of oak, oiled and fixed with wedges on a wooden axle.

Length 24 cm
Width 7 cm
Height 14 cm

Photo: © Dmitriy Chekuchinov
Horse

This horse, from the Russian Horses series, is hand carved from bass wood, painted red and covered with linseed oil in the tradition of toys of the Russian North. The elongated shape and plastic contour of the toy adds dynamics and movement, and the triangular-notched geometric carving takes us back centuries to those times when the image of a horse was the most powerful amulet for a person.

Length 20.5 cm
Width 2.7 cm
Height 9.5 cm

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