Meet Colin Partridge

February 14th to 15th 2009
Walden Winter Carnival
Walden (Sudbury) Ontario

 

Have you ever gone for a walk in the woods or hiking on a secluded trail and stopped every once in a while because you had that funny feeling you were not alone.

Ask woodcarver Colin Partridge and he will tell you that you are not alone. Colin carves woodspirits into trees and firmly believes that there is a woodspirit in each and every tree.

With the magic of his chisels he can remove the excess wood and find the wood spirit hiding or sleeping in the tree. Colin uses no pattern for his sculptures the idea comes right out of his head. If you are to see Colin's carvings you will realize that he has a passion for what he does. No two carvings are of the same face he has carved over three hundred of these spirits and each one has a different expression.

Although he does do other carvings such as bears, eagles etc his passion is his sprits. So the next time you are out for a walk in the woods take a look at the tree's and see if you can see a woodspirit hiding in them.