© Dominic Koval, The Well of Stars, Lake Elmore, Vermont.  All rights reserved.

Although much of his early sculpture was in cast bronze, clay or stone, Dominic has chosen wood as the medium for most of his three-dimensional work.  His carved low-relief sculptures in poplar, black walnut, mahogany, maple, and basswood body forth extraordinary beings, often  in association with lions, leopards, owls, butterflies and archetypal plants.  Jocelyn Grayson, former Gallery Director at the Southern Vermont Art Center, described them as characterized by “an intriguing balance of benevolence and strangeness."