Saturday, 6 December 2008

The Art Of Arborsculpture


Arborsculpture is the art of growing and shaping the branches of trees (and other woody plants) into shapes never intended in the wild or even in the garden.

A combination of pruning, grafting and bending, it is used to make living plants into something either useful or ornamental. The results can be quite stunning.

(via Robert-John)

1 comment(s):

Blackash said...

Hi this is Becky form Pooktre
This tree belongs to Aharon Naveh.
If you like to see more of his work go to http://www.treeshapers.net/aharon-naveh.html or http://www.geocities.com/aharonaveh22/index.htm

Arborsculpture relates to Richard Reames's method of shaping trees.
At Wikipedia there was a consensus that a neutral name was needed for the artform, and Tree shaping was decided upon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping

You may be also interested in visiting this website http://www.treeshapers.net which shows photos from all the different tree shapers from around the world.