Village Squire, 1977-09, Page 11Stuart Taylor
turns wood
into beautiful things
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
Stuart Taylor has a gift --the gift of being able to carve
beautiful things out of wood. Not only does he do the carving
but he actually makes the tools he uses as well.
When walking into his house at R.R.6 Goderich you have to
notice his pieces. They're everywhere and they're beautiful
Old clocks, legs for furniture, guns, horns, animals --practical-
ly anything you could name.
Mr. Taylor doesn't sell his work commercially. That would
ruin his philosophy about life and his hobbv and there is as
much beauty in his philosophy as there is in his
woodcarvings.
"Once you start that there's no love in it. Once you lose
your love there's no patience for it, he said in regard to the
selling of his work.
A former welder and blacksmith Mr. Taylor has been
seriously engaged in woodcarving since about 1950. That 's a
lot of pieces throughout the years and it is an impossible task
for Mr. Taylor to give an accurate estimate of the number of
woodcarvings that adorn his home. It is in fact impossible to
look around and not see something that Mr. Taylor has made.
At least three rooms in his house contain evidence of his
talent. In the livingroom there are horns on the wall. These
are not just ordinary horns though. These have been made out
of wood by Mr. Taylor and it would be hard to tell the
difference between them and the real thing if you didn't
know.
The lamp over the couch has been put together with the use
of wood pieces. The legs on the stool have been carved by Mr.
Taylor and his ingenuity has worked out well for his wife as he
has also made her a quilting stand.
In their den are some animal pelts, evidence of Mr.
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Stuart Taylor examines one of his woodcarvings of a buffalo in a room that the Taylors call their den
which is overflowing with Mr. Taylor's work.
VILLAGE SQUIRE/SEPTEMBER 1977, 9.