Jamaica - Montego Bay Woodcarvers
Adam Williamson is working with a group of woodcarvers in Jamaica. Helping them to start a small collective and produce a range of merchandise. This is an ongoing project and Adam has visited the group every 2 months for the last year.
Film of Project
Over the last year the group have produced a series of distinctive hand turned and carved tableware which has been slowly refined and turned into a distinctive series of beautiful products which have proved popular with the public at two successful launches in Mo Bay and New York.
Film of Project
Rosehall Woodcarvers Background
This is a tightknit group of artisans that have been working together on the Rose hall property (outside Montego Bay) since they where children. They grew up climbing some of the trees they are now using to make beautiful art works. For years the carvers worked using only the most basic hand tools, felling trees with only a machete and making chisels from old metal piping.
The team use carefully chosen beautiful pieces of Mahogany, lignum vitae and Quick stick, mostly sourced from the Rosehall property. Many of these woods where old roots or trunks, which came down 50 years ago and are 150 years old.
Over the last year the group have produced a series of distinctive hand turned and carved tableware which has been slowly refined and turned into a distinctive series of beautiful products which have proved popular with the public at two successful launches in Mo Bay and New York.
