Alan Reynolds
BiographyAlan Reynolds is a woodcarver specializing in chainsaw carvings originally from Unionville and Burlington, Connecticut and now living in New Hampshire. He owned a custom carving company called Bearpaw Wood Carvings and now works as a carver in Lancaster, New Hampshire. CCHAP documented his work in 1998 to include it in the exhibit Sur Bois: Franco-American Woodcarvers of New England. The traveling exhibit was borrowed from the Franco-American Centre of Manchester, New Hampshire, and it was displayed throughout New England for three years. In partnership with L'Union des Franco-Américains du Connecticut, CCHAP added four Franco-American woodcarvers from Connecticut to the exhibit, making the exhibit a regional showcase of Franco-American artistry in wood. From the exhibit label on Alan’s work: “Franco-Americans have often intermarried with Native Americans, particularly in northern New England. Alan Reynolds' family, originally from northern Vermont, is mixed Indian and French. His great-grandfather settled in Burlington, Connecticut where he owned large fruit orchards and where Alan still lives. He took up woodcarving after watching other carvers, and loved it so much he quit his job to pursue it fulltime. He makes both fine decorative decoys and birds as well as large scale chainsaw carvings out of logs or tree stumps. 'I never went back to work, it's such a passion.' Alan loaned three carvings made from pine seasoned with oil – Bear Cubs In a Tree, Eagle, and Fat Cat."
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