Wood sculptor Andy DiPietro is new to LBI but not new to the art form of turning and shaping wood into gently sloping, curving, rounded and angled objects of curiosity and wonder.

‘Rhapsody in Blue’ (Artwork by Andy DiPietro)

The Burlington resident said he grew up in Philadelphia’s Delaware Valley suburbs and moved to New Jersey in 1982 for his first job as a mechanical engineer after graduating from Drexel University.

Wood, passionately, is his main medium, with which he creates many different styles of wood sculpture and wood turned vessel forms, he explained.

Mostly self-taught, DiPietro had some woodworking training as a middle schooler at Milton Hershey School.