A post shared by Simon James O’Rourke (@simonorourke)“It was a bit of a lightbulb moment one time when I saw somebody carving using the chainsaw, and I got really excited,” he recalls. “I wanted to give it a go, so I went straight back into the yard where our tree surgery base was and decided to practice.”From that moment, Simon knew he’d found his life’s calling: wood sculpting“I love the fact that such beauty can be created with such a violent tool,” Simon says, “and that was really what kind of got me going.”He got started carving with Acorn Furniture for two years and opened his own business in 2005.
Fast forward a few years, and his wood sculpting ventures have taken him all over the globe. He’s traveled to the US, Japan, Canada,.
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