A prominent Canadian sculptor, Lyle Sopel was born in Richmond, British Columbia (now a suburb of Vancouver) and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. His works are in numerous important private and corporate collections.

Sopel's best known mediums are jade, semi-precious and precious gemstones, exotic minerals and precious metals. His larger works are frequently mixed medium compositions with an allegoric, metaphoric, mythological or spiritual theme. These tableaus frequently tell their stories with multiple carvings of animals, fish, birds, flowers and objects (see the AskART photo of the artist). The individual subjects of his other works are Buddhas, animals (especially bears, birds and fish), nudes and figures. His sty...