If you were to visit Paula at her home in Dallas and spend some time with her roses and statues, the patch of perennials, the ...

Posted: December 4, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025 Discover the art of transformation as this creative genius takes an old tree stump with an unusual shape and turns it into a stunning chair.

Mr Yeates contacted the local council to request the stump of the tree that fell down opposite Whitwell Newsagents at Christmas. The 42-year-old's finished artwork features a fox and a pair of owls.

Alex said: "I carved the face of the Archer to her likeness and they were very pleased with the results. The tree was a twin stem ash, that was planted by his father when he was young so he wanted ...

Then came this February’s ice storm, leaving her with nothing but a stump in its place. “When the guy came and cut [the tree] down, he left a pretty big chunk of it left,” she said.

Tree stumps are a blank canvas for chain saw artist Glen Sievert, who spent Tuesday transforming a fallen oak tree in San Carlos into a humpback whale.

The well known but "almost dead" horse chestnut tree was felled in 2022. But instead of removing the 1.5m (4.9ft) stump, Dawlish Town Council turned it into a sculpted throne, adorned with two swans.

The carved tree stump was unveiled in September by the Mayor of Dawlish Lisa Mayne, along with Devon County Councillor Martin Wrigley and chair of the Civic Amenities Committee of the town council ...

Like smoke at a barbecue, the sawdust from the chain saw being used by Joe Stebbing seemed to follow me wherever I stood, as great clouds of pulverized tree erupting from his fuel-injected Stihl.