Andris Donis

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Andris Donis is a wood-carver with more than 20 years of experience creating wooden sculptures. He was born in 1947, in Jaunlutriņi in Saldus district. He attended the Riga Applied Arts Secondary School, and graduated from the Teodors Zalkalns State Academy of Arts (now called the Art Academy of Latvia) with a degree in design. His first wooden sculpture, "Rūkis - malkas cirtējs" (The Dwarf-Woodcutter), was highly appreciated, and that encouraged Andris to continue his work with wooden sculptures and the Tērvete Nature Park. Working in the Park, he was responsible for building wooden bridges, staircases, direction signs, information boards and so on. His wooden sculptures decorate various parts of the Tērvete Nature Park, includng the Fairy-tale Wood.

,,Skudras", Zalenieku seniūnija, Jelgava,
LV-3011, Latvija
+371 28354756
andris.donis@yahoo.com