Olivier Ansel (la Guêpe)

"After an apprenticeship with the Compagnons du Tour de France, 33 years ago I joined a qualified roofing company "Historic Monuments" as a roofer then team leader. During my various projects (Châteaux, churches , cathedral etc.) from the Central region in particular, I recovered old non-reusable nails, forged by hand by our elders from the 16th and 17th centuries for the most part. I then decided to keep them in order to give them. , one day, a second life After several years of reflection, I found how to do it quite simply by using them raw or by stripping them and then assembling them by welding or soldering according to my imagination to create sculptures. ."