Todd McAneeley | Wood Wall Wonders

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Todd McAneeley

wood. Courtesy of the artist.

Artist Statement

The wood art I create comes from my deep love of wood and nature. They both have many textures, colours and aromas, and each of them are natural, beautiful elements in my everyday life.

My artwork is a creation from salvaged woods that inspire my creativity to design unique and intriguing artwork from abstract to representative art. My medium is the same wood that so many people chop up and turn it into ashes. Seeing the beauty in wood ‘offcuts’ makes me feel I am making a contribution in cleaning the air we all breath.

Nature is filled with wondrous landscapes, so I will continue to be inspired and turn salvaged wood into works of art.

Todd McAneeley came into this life in 1963 in a small town in Saskatchewan named Humboldt. He was the 4th of 5 children, all boys, of Basil and Olive McAneeley. He lived and went to school in Humboldt up to the age of 15, when the family moved to Campbell River, BC. Todd didn’t live in Campbell River very long. His family moved to Duncan which is where he graduated from high school. He was a serious golfer and contemplated becoming a golf pro or an architect. 

Todd went to college at Malaspina College in Nanaimo (Vancouver Island University) and studied architectural drafting. After he graduated, he worked for a few architectural firms, but decided to go out on his own and opened a business in Winnipeg where he designed and drafting house plans for 7 years.

In 1996, Todd met a wonderful woman back in Duncan, and he and Brenda exchanged vows in 1997 and in June will be married for 18 years. In 1998, Todd opened a custom furniture business in Duncan that made anything made from wood from coffee tables to conference tables. He truly enjoyed the challenge of creating furniture and cabinets from wood species from all around the world. The recession hit hard in 2008 and Todd sadly had to close his doors of his business.

Todd found full time employment in Duncan with a custom furniture company called Live Edge Design in 2011 which he is still happily involved with. He was noticing wood off cuts that were very beautiful were mostly used as firewood, so he started making wood art and mirrors with it. He thoroughly enjoys the creative process of coming up with unique art and artistic mirrors. 

Opened a business is what he did in 2014 called Live Edge Mirrors where he makes and sells his mirrors both locally and online throughout Canada and the US and is proud to use the scrap wood for art instead of it turning into ashes.