My life and activity rotate around the love and knowledge of wood, a noble and living matter that offers many possibilities of processing it. I “met” wood when I was 14 and have never left it, striving to master and appreciate it through refined craftsmanship skills.

Woodcarving is used to make ornaments in recess or in relief on wooden surfaces. Tools are chisels, mallets, burins, gouges and scrapers, files and sandpaper for the finishing of figures and ornaments. Carvings can be decorated, painted or gilded, or simply polished, to emphasize the natural beauty of the wood.

I began this job when the memories of the war were still alive. At the time, there was a spontaneity, a will to act. Nowadays there is much less of this, it has been superseded by opportunism. I realize that young people are searching for something, but the context has to change.

People are more concerned by the cost than by the quality of an object. Few people trust, and the concept of "you don’t need it” wins most of the time. Instead beauty has a price; behind it there is a person's knowledge, his skill, his hand.