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Wood Art by John Jantsch

Negative Grace

The beauty of absence in objects suspended in stillness, honoring space as presence and form.

Winter

13 x 19 pine, oak, and walnut

Fall

13 x 19 pine, walnut, and aspen

Summer

13 x 19 pine and walnut

Spring

13 x 19 pine, oak, and walnut

Aspen 1

9 x 9 walnut and oak

Aspen 2

9 x 9 walnut and oak

Aspen 3

9 x 9 walnut and oak

Aspen 4

9 x 9 walnut and oak

Edge of Memory

13 x 19 walnut, pine, oak and epoxy

And So Are We

11 x 11 walnut, aspen, and oak

Don’t Fly Away

11 x 11 walnut, aspen, and oak

Cairn #2

13 x 19 pine, walnut, and oak

Always S’more

13 x 13 walnut, pine, and oak

Let’s Go

13 x 13 pine, walnut, and oak

Caddis #1

13 x 14 pine, oak, and fiber

Somewhere

13 x 13 pine and oak

More works

John Jantsch

Ravenwood

I build simple wooden pieces that reflect my love for nature, craftsmanship, and the outdoors. Most of my work plays with negative space—what’s not there is as important as what is. I’m drawn to forms like feathers, cairns, benches, fishing flies, and campfire scenes, all symbols from a life spent outside.

Everything I make is built by hand, using natural materials and shapes that feel familiar but ask for a second look. Some are serious, some are playful. But they’re all meant to make people slow down and notice small things such balance, memory, light, shadow.

I just enjoy making things that feel honest, with wood that tells its own story.