Sculpture . . . by Joe Ratushniak, Joe Ratushniak

Starting to draw at the tender age of two, and taking only short breaks to eat and sleep, Joe continued drawing non-stop for the next ten years.

In his late twenties his artistic prowess truly began to manifest itself. While working for a prominent custom log home builder in Alberta, he was given an opportunity to do a carving on a building.

Since then Joe's looked side to side, but never back and his fine art has made its way into residential and commercial buildings across the USA, Canada, Japan and Germany.

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This bigger than life "Grizzly Bear Hug" was originally intended as a exterior post of a log home.
When the client defaulted it collected dust in the corner of my studio until finally finding a home in the Okanagan.