Tunisian artist creates masterpieces out of wood

Tunisian artist Hamza al-Annabi has continued to have a successful career as a wood engraver for 50 years. Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood.

Hamza’s passion for art started at a tender age, learning and mastering the art of engraving on wood. The Tunisian artist makes masterpieces of furniture with his unique designs, some of which carry the Andalusian Arab character and the European character of the Louis XV era.

Hamza, talented in drawing, said he was trained as a wood engraver, unlike his father and brothers who are copper engravers.