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Marvin Mozlin: Wildlife Artist and Carver

Marv is a life-long native of Pennsylvania where his boyhood years of fishing and observing wildlife influenced his development as an artist.  He began carving about twenty eight years ago, and after attending his first show, it was love at first sight which has now become an obsession.

Marv majored in art throughout his school years, receiving various awards for his work which culminated in his receiving a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Art.  However, it was not until years later, after going into business and raising a family, that he was inspired to paint again.

Marv has won awards in major competitions (including the professional category) on the Atlantic seaboard which include the following:
Ward Foundation World Championship, Ocean City, Maryland
Wetlands Institute, Stone Harbor, New Jersey
Garden State Waterfowl Championship, Red Bank, New Jersey
U. S. Nationals, Long Island, New York
Somerset County Wildlife Show, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Delaware Wildlife and Art Show, Wilmington, Delaware
Mid - Atlantic Wildlife Show, Abington, Pennsylvania

Marv has had several one-man shows at the following galleries:
Janet Flesicher Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ark II, Flemington, New Jersey
Ron Kolbis Wildlife Art Gallery, Erwinna, Pennsylvania
Waterfowl Gallery, Peddler's Village, Lahaska, Pennsylvania

His work has also been shown at the following locations:
Academy of Natural Sciences, Wildlife Exposition in Philadelphia
Honey Hollow Audubon Society, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Brandywine Decoy and Wildlife Exhibit, Brandywine, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware

His carvings are included in private collections across the United States and England.

Marv's special love is to carve and paint hens and upland game birds giving them a natural feeling and attitude with warm earth tone colors.  Most of his birds are carved from a solid block of wood.  Marv is an avid hunter and his carvings capture the birds as he sees them in their natural environment expressing the proudness and singular individuality of the species.

Hand carved birds that Marv has crafted include upland game birds, birds of prey, water foul, decorative decoys, and owls. Realistic and lifelike wood carving. Nature as art and art reflecting nature.

Wood Sculpture: Hansjorg Stubler

The Alchemist of salvaged material.

They are made from various shades of wood, ranging from light to very dark: mahogany, rose wood, purau, pistachio, miki miki, teak or coconut. The birds, fish, and shell-fish, poised on their stands and cleverly articulated, give an impression of luxury and peaceful tranquility. Nevertheless they have all been worked out of salvaged material such as wood shavings, fish bones, teeth and backbones, stones and fiber. Hansjörg Stübler is the author, craftsman and sculptor of this extraordinary alchemy. He has been living in Moorea for four years. Nothing seemed to predestine this pharmacist of German origin to become sculptor, except perhaps his passion for giving life to matter of all descriptions. He first of all satisfies his creative desire by renovating old houses in Europe. Then he rapidly salvages wood and various other materials for making furniture and picture frames, especially for the paintings of Nataly Jolibois, his companion. The nearness of the lagoon in Moorea awakens other desires in Hansjörg Stübler inspiring him to create unique pieces of sculpture that are genuine hymns to nature. Each vein, groove and knot of these forgotten pieces of wood are magnified until they become the very quintessence of the essence; each work is then polished to preserve them as living objects – if they were varnished, they would become rigid and die. Each new piece of salved material is a beginning of a new story…

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