Jonathon Whittaker

Johnathon Whittaker is an artist and sculptor based in Plymouth Devon, carving and creating wood and sculpting in concrete from his home workshop. Jonathan Whittaker breathes new life into fallen and discarded trees, creating art with a renewed spirit for the home or garden from unique pieces of wood.

Johnathon Whittaker grew up in Barbados, where he started his working career as both a recreational and commercial diver. It was through this, and the Caribbean beauty he grew up in, that he found his love of the ocean and nature, and it swiftly became the core of his inspiration in his wood carvings today. Johnathon works instinctively, allowing each piece of wood to describe itself; he finds the symmetry and flow hidden within the raw wood material, often highlighting the uniqueness of the wood and their imperfections, often using a chainsaw to create his art in wood.