Willow Tree Collectibles: These Figurines Make Personal, Meaningful Gifts

I was out Christmas shopping, and I needed something to show how much I care for someone, but wasn't finding what I wanted to find. Nothing seemed to say what I wanted it to say, So I went to my favorite craft supply store to see if I can maybe make something, when I saw they had a display on these collectables called the Willow Tree© by Susan Lordi. These figures were beautiful they are hand done, and look almost like they are whittled out of wood. I picked up a box of one figure that I thought was beautiful and read the story on the box:

Willow Tree was introduced in January 2000 with one figurine, 15 angels, and the Nativity. The line has grown to encompass those sentiments that we most want to express. To our friends, to our family, to our children's teachers, to those near and dear, to those far and infrequent.

The original inspiration for Willow Tree still holds true today: Willow Tree is an intimate, personal line of figurative sculptures representing qualities and sentiments that help us feel close to others, heal wounds, or treasure relationships to living things. Artist Susan Lordi hand-carves each original piece with this thought in mind. Her figures continue to evolve as she identifies emotions so important for us to convey, and renders them in simple, pure gestures. These art forms beautifully express love, closeness, healing, courage, hope...all the emotions of a life well lived.

The name Willow Tree was chosen to symbolize that which is gestural and beckoning. The figures are columnar in design, like a tree, and often carry natural objects or animals as metaphors for human virtues or qualities...rosemary for remembrance, a bird for healing, flowers for beauty.

The sculptures are rendered so as to suggest elegance, simplicity, peace and serenity. Forms reveal their expressions through body gestures only...a tilt of the head, placement of the hands, a turn of the body. Emotions are left to the viewer to discern, which makes them personal and powerful.

Willow Tree is an understated line that speaks in a compelling and powerful way.

I was taken away this statue was exactly what I was looking for. I looked at the other figurines, and found several that I could give as gifts, they were all saying what I wanted them to mean. When I got home I wanted to learn more about these, I found out that these statues are becoming very collectible, for the same reasons, I wanted to give them as a gift, they touch upon the emotions. If your looking for something that will mean something look to Willow Tree©