Wood. Hands. Time.

I shape wood with hand tools. Each piece is one of one — sometimes a creature, sometimes a vessel, sometimes a small thing you can wear. The grain decides as much as I do.

Studio at night, warm light over carved wood
Wood A material that already knows. I just listen.
The artist's open hands on wood
Hands Marks of the years, the only tool that doesn't lie.
Štěpán Holoubek at work in the studio
Time No rushing the grain. The piece is done when it is.

Galleries

Four bodies of work. One pair of hands.