Richard Goerg Wood Carving Sculptures

Richard Goerg was born in Port Angeles, Washington and moved to Canada in 1976. He is a retired educator and lives near a major wildfowl migratory route which enables him to photograph and study birds represented in his work. His formal education consists of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education, majoring in Biology. His wood sculpting skills are "self taught" with significant encouragement from his family. He has also won several international awards in competitions.

Richard carves in both the traditional style, where birds and trout are created as a realistic representation of the species, and in the interpretive style of carving wildfowl into raw wood. In traditional carving Tupelo wood is uded to develop a life like species. In wood sculpting the bird is developed to compliment a unique natural wood form.