Pavel Spelda

We know the Artist: 

Master craftsman wood carver and restorer, Pavel Špelda was born in 1977 in Nachod (Czech Republic).

After attending the School of Art in Prague and the College in Sidney, Australian, he returns home to attend a Masters degree at the Academy of Arts.

Since 1996, he has been working as a freelance in Červený Kostelec (Czech Republic) and participates in seminars, fairs, competitions and exhibitions or group exhibitions at home and abroad, winning various prizes and mentions.

«My specialty is artistic wood carving. Our work also includes techniques such as gilding, restoration and surface finishing with the use of classical techniques. The study and interest in classical sculpture and painting lead me to combine the beauty of wood with light figurative lines, which I present as a message ».

Realization for the Symposium of Predaia 2020:

The sculpture created by Pavel has the title “Natural Springs” (orig. “Natural Springs”)

The work reflects the ways of nature and humans with everything that surrounds them in connection with each other.

The knots symbolize discomfort, pain, disease.

Life does not only have a direct direction, it has many curves, redirects, dead ends and above all intersections.

For no one it is easy, but luckily there is a heaven and a land for sure for everyone.

My sculpture has an infinite character. As if to indicate that if nature seems to reach its end we will realize that, in reality, it is just a gate to a new direction of its own … which is wonderful!