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N. Hemlock, PO Box 12, Cannon Beach, OR 97110, 503-436-2547
Eric
Langeliers
Langeliers
from Springfield Oregon , is a metal artist who specializes in
making wall sculptures. Eric has been cutting and welding since
taking high school shop classes. Eric uses a plasma lead torch
to cut out the larger pieces such as land, water and wildlife,
and use an oxygen-acetylene cutting torch for more detailed work
such as trees.
Langeliers, 27, has been creating metal art for the last two years. He opened
a shop in Goshen where visitors are welcome to watch him work, but he has no
art on display there. He became a full-time artist after working as a millwright.
Langeliers has been a hunter and fisherman since he was a youngster and he's
now turning the memories of those experiences into his metal art. He said his
favorite piece is an eagle with a fish in its talons.
"I just started messing around in the shop and kind of said, 'Hey, I can
do this,'" he said.