Evening News (London) – Monday 15 July 1957
Strange Woods
FQUALLY at home with black ebony, opepe, obeche, iroko and black afara is the man from Benin City.
Nigerian sculptor Felix Idubor has been carving these woods since he was eight. Now he comes to London, aged 29, to show 40 of his carvings in the pavilion of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington.
An entirely natural and self-taught artist, he tells me he has earned his living by his carving since he was 12.
His London exhibition – it continues until July 28 – includes the casket he carved for the Queen when she visited Nigeria.
