Nick
Lonborg
Artist and Woodcarver
Nick Lonborg, originally from Scituate MA. was
born in South Korea and was adopted by Jim and Rosemary Lonborg at the age
of seven. Nick’s dad, Jim is best known as a former major league
baseball player, who pitched for the Boston Red Sox and won the Cy Young
award in 1967.
Nick currently resides and maintains his workshop
in Halifax Ma. he has been woodcarving for over 25 years, and it all began
with a Christmas gift of ten carving lessons in 1983. Nick attended
woodcarving classes with Paul McCarthy in Scituate harbor and his love of
the craft grew very quickly. Mr. McCarthy hired Nick a few years
later to work around the shop, which turned into an informal
apprenticeship and that is where Nick’s career began as a woodcarver of
the South Shore. In the spring of 1987 Nick joined the U.S. Navy traveling
around the world while serving his country as an engineer. Although the
schedule was hectic Nick still found the time to design and create
quarter-boards (carved signs) and other woodcarving projects while on
board ship. In 1991 Nick crossed and saluted the quarterdeck of the USS
Truett for the last time and he was honorably discharged as a veteran of
Desert Storm.
After a short stint at Quincy Collage, Nick was
accepted to UMASS Amherst on the GI Bill, where he earned a degree in
Fine Arts. During summer breaks while in college Nick did woodcarving out
on Nantucket Island creating many of the unique and beautiful
quarter-boards you still see there today. Currently, the Cape and Islands
is a major market for Lonborg Woodcarving creations.
Nick has been involved in some very unique
carving projects such as restoration of the coastal church of Saint Mary’s.
There Nick completed an extensive amount of work which included,
replacing, refinishing, and gold leafing 20 Stations of the Cross;
restoring the main alter, columns, and capitals; over 50 relief carvings
along the main body of the church and several life sized carved saints;
also creating all the exterior signage for different buildings and
satellite locations.
In preparation of the 2001 Olympics, Nick created
an eight foot 23k gold eagle, along with more than twenty quarterboards
representing different US cities for the Olympic valley in Utah.
Nick has completed countless other projects
smaller in scale but just as impressive, and rewarding. Some samples are
on his web site
LONBORGWOODCARVING.COM
