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"Something to lean on and help you find your way."
The hand carved hiking sticks of Mike Vickery are a continuation of a
journey begun over 50 years ago. Mike discovered the beginnings of his
artistic talent in the fourth grade, after attending Happy Acres
Elementary School. A self taught carver, beginning in the 10th grade, with
3 1/2 years of formal training in graphic design and illustration at the
Maryland Institute College of Art.
Mike has been a freelance illustrator for publications such as National
Geographic Traveler and a frequent contributor of ascerbic cartoons to
many corporate publications and regional magazines. His love of nature and
the woods has consumed him for nearly his entire life. Married to his best
friend Teri, also an avid backpacker and woods woman, they decided to
leave the "suburbs" and live in the woods, instead of visiting them every
chance they had.
The home of Happy Acres Art is in a secluded hollow in Looneyville, West,
by God, Virginia on 125 acres of hills, valleys, springs and their beloved
woods. Walks in the woods yield the art displayed on these pages. Each
stick is hand carved with knives (so far he's cut only one artery but he
still has all his fingers!) usually from 10 year old maples. The head of
the stick was once the root of the tree. The carvings represent native
West Virginia critters found in his woods or the ones found in his fertile
imagination.
To many people, woods are a place a person can get lost...to Mike, the
woods helped him find peace and natural beauty and his way in the world.
Mike's sticks
are also available at:
Tamarack
"The Best of West Virginia"
One Tamarack Park
Beckley WV. 25801
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