SCULPTOR Robert Koenig will be adding another figure next week to the 29 carved wooden figures that make up his exhibition, Odyssey.
On Monday afternoon, he will begin carving the "Salisbury" figure from a tree donated by the Wilton Estate and visitors to the Cathedral can watch him at his makeshift workshop in the cloisters.
The Hove-based artist, seen at work, right, began his Odyssey project in 1997, carving male and female figures from lime trees in his mother's home village of Dominikowice in Poland. Since then, the figures have followed the same route his mother followed in 1942 from her home village in Poland through Krakow, the Nazi slave camps in Germany and onto England. Prior to coming to Salisbury, Odyssey was at Chichester Cathedral where the Duke of Richmond donated one of his storm-damaged cedars for a carving.
Odyssey is on show in front of the great West Front doors inside Salisbury Cathedral, and will continue to travel around the world after it leaves the Cathedral on February 29.
Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to see not only art in action, but also to touch base with the start of the Cathedral's 750th anniversary celebrations, the "Salisbury" figure representing the Cathedral's own celebrations of its roots.
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