Guy Detot left a 30-year career performing all over the world for a 'great adventure' to follow his love to Australia and become a farmer. But he soon realised he needed a creative outlet.
Only a small portion of Guy Detot's art studio is dedicated to his years as a professional ballet dancer.
"That half an hour [drive from the airport] changed my life. I fell in love with the country. I fell in love with the trees," the 67-year-old said.Since then Detot has devoted his days to Penola and sculpting creations out of red gum, which he considers the "best wood in the world". After three years of night classes, he persuaded Hans Zullig, the director of Folkwangschule, a famous dance school in Germany, for an"I learnt that [he] was in Paris so I rang a very famous concert hall in Paris ... [and rented] it. I say to him 'I rent the place, I rent it for an hour on this day at this time. Can you come?'"When I love something, I have so much confidence in the things I love, you can't stop me," Detot says.
While successful, it became too hard. He and his wife — who had always wanted to live on a farm — moved to Penola, where they started a family."But I'm not really a farmer. My fences were terrible, but I tried.He started carving red gum at night and selling pieces to interested viewers.Guy's love affair with red gums
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