Christiane with an Eastern White Cedar root in her workshop in Deerville, New Brunswick, Canada in 2025.

In Africa Christiane carved old root pieces and fallen limbs of trees. In Saskatoon, Canada she started to work with blocks of wood, which encouraged her to be more formal and structural in her approach, but still making animals and birds the theme. Finding root pieces of Eastern White Cedar in New Brunswick, Canada has brought her back to expressing her art through working from natural forms.

Christiane uses hand tools, except a drill for the rough sanding before the fine hand sanding work can begin.

“In my sculpture, I aim to carry the natural shape of the wood into the expression of my ideas, respecting the history of the tree that created the form that supports the process. The beauty of the organic shape supports the beauty I seek to bring out in my artistic message. This has guided me in the understanding of my connectedness to nature and all that exists. The definition of my sculpture comes through setting lines that flow from and into each other in an almost abstract fashion, but I do also seek a recognizable and identifiable content discreetly displayed within those lines and shapes”

See some of Christiane’s recent work.

Christiane with her sculpture in her workshop in Maun, Botswana in 2021.