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Meet the Artist: Timberland Urns
By lmhall | May 23, 2008
Today on our Meet the Artist series we are talking with Val Grinshpan of Carvax Incorporated. Val is the creator of our popular bronze angel dog and kitty pet urns.
We’ve also just added his horse keepsake urn.
Val is a sculptor who came to the USA from Russia in 1989 during the collapse of the Soviet Union. His training in Russia was with wood, ivory, stone carvings, folk art and small gifts and custom jewelry settings. In 2002, he started Carvax Inc. and began sculpting his own designs in wax for custom orders, and later started building prototypes for furniture hardware and kitchen and bath pulls, which has become the core of the business.
The urn line was pure accident, Val had received a custom order from a client who wanted a pet urn sculpted. Happy with the results, he then created one for his own beloved German Shepard, Timber.
Later, he worked up the kitty and dog design and started calling around to find distributors. Timberland Urns was launched in 2005 and is now 30% of his business and growing.
The beauty of Val’s work and the quality is evident. Timberland Urns are made in the USA. He feels that he can maintain quality control better and casts only 35 pieces of art from a silicon mold in order to maintain the great detail.
We’ve just added two of Val’s new creations: a marble urn topped with a golf sculpture and the marble vault style urn, Creation of Man.
Topics: , art, cremation, memorial service ideas, pet urns, urns |
May 25th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Would love to have Meet the Artist as a category so we can find others you’ve posted. Thanks!
July 7th, 2008 at 7:14 am
[...] Sculpted by an award winning artist, our “Best Friend” pet urn captures the love and companionship a true friend can offer. This pet urn has the look and feel of bronze sculpture, but is cold cast in designer resin and sits atop a hardwood urn. Your choice, cherry, walnut, or oak finish with personalization available. Two sizes to accommodate breeds 35-110 pounds. [...]