BUZZING ABOUT GETTING WOMEN INTO HER ART...
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Two years ago, Griffon also turned her hand to ice carving when she was invited to work as one of 17 sculptors on an ice temple in Slovakia for a ski resort.
“We had to make a gigantic church from ice inspired by St Peter’s Basilica in Rome,” she recalls.
“However, it had Slovakian elements in it, such as ice-carved mountain goats and edelweiss. It was a magical experience working on it and collaborating with so many other artists.”
For her own projects, Griffon likes to work on pieces that have fantasy elements, such as dragons, wizards, or characters from games and comic books.
In October 2014, a video she uploaded of her sculpting a tree into Groot, the tree-like character from Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, had over 115,000 views in three days. She’s also carved Elsa from Frozen as a tribute to her daughter Millicent. Griffon loves to see her skills evolving and is looking ahead to what is coming next.
“I love the chainsaw carving community, it’s such an amazing group of interesting and brave people,” Griffon adds.
“And chainsaw carving is taking me all over the world.
“Every year is a new opportunity, a strange journey.
“I want to keep on introducing it to a new audience and help it be taken more seriously in the art world.”