This is Bob Croup and he is an "intarsia" artisan...
 

The tiger to the left is a compilation of many individual pieces of wood. This type of craft is called intarsia. This is just one of the many intarsian projects that Bob has worked on. The one pictured above here is called "New Shoes". It uses 200 separate pieces of hand picked and shaped wood. 

View additional works The previous and following patterns were created by a woman by the name of Judy Gayle Roberts.