- City
- Guelph
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 236
Ivano Stocco
My work bridges engineered precision and organic rhythm. Each piece begins as a gestural sketch, moves into CAD for digital slicing, and is then built by hand in my shop. I stack and glue layers of birch laminate—sometimes adding local hardwoods—then manually carve and sand the blocks into fluid shapes. The goal is to transform flat, industrial material into sensuous forms that suggest, among other things, snowdrifts, waves, and local geology. They're designed to hang flat on the wall in various orientations.
I've been a full-time visual artist since 2007. My perspective has been shaped by years of living and working in Italy, Spain, England, Venezuela, and California. Today, I operate permanently out of Guelph, Ontario, where I live with my spouse and two teenage daughters and maintain a 2,000-square-foot custom woodworking and design studio.
