The starting point of his interest in woodcarving during his childhood and youth was the Folklore Festival Východná and the event Carved into Wood, which has been presented in the local amphitheater since 1975 on the initiative of Viliam Gruska and Irena Pišútová.

His admiration for folk art led him to a profession intertwined with folklore – he was a professional dancer in the Poddukelský Folk Art Ensemble in Prešov. Hand in hand with this direction, he later embarked on a path of purposeful exploration of folk sacred professional art in museum and gallery collections, as well as in churches, and also the works of contemporaries, from whom he has been forming a collection for several decades.

He doesn’t imitate anyone. In his works, one can find a hint of the work of the woodcarver Jakub Grinvalský from Kežmarok, and occasionally glimpses of the creation of the Prešov academic sculptor Dušan Pončák shine through. He also knows and admires several living and deceased classics of Slovak folk art. However, he has transformed everything within himself, and his sculptures speak in their own language. Compact in their portrayal, they seem to emerge from a piece of wood, using minimal representational means, but with respect for the motif and identification with the attribute that is an integral part of the sculpture.

And everything is enhanced by color. Sometimes lightly applied, as if a glaze, elsewhere covering entire surfaces, along with a patina that gives depth to the sculpture, emphasizing gestures, parts of the body. His sculptures address something in people from faith, something from the search for beauty, and something from finding pleasure. They appeal to both reason and emotion. Therefore, they are part of many households at home and abroad.

However, they did not become the subject of mass production, and each sculpture, even if the subject is processed multiple times, is created under his chisels as if for the first time even after years. It carries a unique expression, usually also inner tension, a message that the author gives to the wood through his own style of processing and final finishing.

Sources of his carving can be found in the sculptures of Christ in canonized depictions of the Man of Sorrows or the Resurrection motif in folk polychrome carving of northeastern Slovakia, and perhaps also in his personal transformation of feelings from the Eastern Slovak icon painting. His work is as if a modern continuation of peasant carving, but not its copy. In expression and choice of themes, he remains distinctive, visibly not trying to give his sculptures the appearance of works by professional sculptors of the past or present, nor does he imitate traditional folk sculptures.

And although he is more at home in the sacred area, he can also depict, for example, folklore themes. For instance, his oversized musician in a Goralsko costume, which he created in 2005 at the Carved into Wood event, where he leaned towards woodcarving, now adorns the entrance to the Municipal Office in Východná. With this work (and subsequent similar ones), he demonstrated that his strength lies not only in creating smaller figurines. After all, he chose them primarily based on the possibilities allowed by a housing estate apartment and adapted the work technique to that, dominated by a knife and carving by hand pressure.

In 2010, he was awarded the title of Master of Folk Artistic Production for preserving and developing woodcarving sculpture