Luke Lichterman

I live in a North Carolina oak and pine forest, surrounded by the media in which I work. My forest provides solace in its peaceful chaos and spiritual sustenance in the material it provides for my work.

I value these attributes and strive to maintain its ecological balance and health by practicing sustainable, non-interventionist forestry. I harvest only downed, dead-fall/windfall trees and those showing rot, infestation or other indicators of terminal condition.

I sculpt self harvested natural whole round oak, walnut and other available hardwood timbers.

Commissions are negotiable - Lead times vary depending upon the project, workload and ready availability of suitable timber. I don’t do portraits, I do impressions.


My voyage to the Here and Now.

In the summers 1954 to 1959, I apprenticed to my old-world carpenter grandfather, Morris Brown, and learned that the concepts; ‘Square,’ ‘Level’ and ‘plumb’ where vexing to my dyslexic mind.

I did discover however, that given a suitable chunk of wood and a knife, chisel or gouge, I could easily make sculptural forms.

During the 10-years between 1959 and 1969, I served in the U. S. Army, married, fathered children, did poorly in business and was divorced by my wi...

Autodidact Artist -- I guess that means self taught.

Snobs and other self-important nabobs refer to the truly intuitive artist as, "Naive," OK, I'm naive. Please don't try to confuse me with your facts.

In the beginning, working with my hands for my grandfather and other builders, I was a Laborer.

Later, Jack Kelsey taught me to work with my head and my hands and I became a Craftsman.

Jack Hopkins freed me from the constraints of: square, level and plumb, by teaching me to add my non-quantifiable heart and I became the artist, whose work you see here.

My passage to the present day is documented, beginning in the, "1970's, Hippie Woodworker," gallery, passes through the "Voyager" gallery and into the present-tense, "North Carolina" gallery, all viewable @
www.ncsculptor.com

Formal degrees neither create nor define artists, only their work does.

Carri Bass Studio
Tryon NC
July 27, 2019
Permanent display

Gallery of Fine Art
Gig harbor, WA
Permanent display
1997 -- 1998*


Galleria Uno
Puerta Vallarta
Jalisco, Mexico
1984*


Modern Fine Arts (?)
La Jolla, CA
1978*

Fiji Arts and Crafts (?)
Suva, Fiji
1972*


*Exact dates neither remembered nor available.