My name is Stefano Arnodo, I was born in 1975, I grow-up in Carema and than in Pont-Saint-Martin, in Aosta Valley. Son of metallurgy’s artisans, since I was young I was involved into the familial activity and into the material. Through my farmer grandfather I know the importance of wood as a tool and in the repairs. Thanks to the latter that grows up in me the love for the artisans works with wood. At 25 I decide to begin to copy a not too easy model to test my ability. I carve a hand in a log of an apple-tree. The result is good and I continue to carve. At that point I discover a book very important for my work: “Manuale di scultura su legno” (edit by Priuli & Verlucca) by Giuseppe Binel, famous artisan and sculptor from Aosta Valley. I begin to attend an evening school of sculpture as a teacher the author of the book: Giuseppe Binel. I attend this school for five years in the meanwhile I carve sculptures and bas-reliefs that awarded a prize during the summer fairs of the sculpture schools in Antey Saint André. The “Assessorato Attività produttive e Politiche del Lavoro della Regione Valle d’Aosta” gives me and other three my colleagues the possibility to take part in a stage during 200 hours per two years. Thanks to this project I can finally open my own carving workshop. I take part to the most important carving fairs of the region on my own, not with the school, and I register myself in the “Registro produttori oggetti di Artigiananto Valdostano”. In 2005 and 2006 I take part to the sculpture symposium organized by “Cantoira dall’Uniart” and by the Piedmont region and I win respectively the first and the second place. In 2006 I take part for the first time to a competition organized by Aosta Valley region with the sculpture “la veillà", that wins a prize. From October 2006 I assist the sculptor Angelo Bettoni in the evening school of sculpture of Perloz. I work part-time with my parents and during my spare time I carve, a work that I particularly love!