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Culture Issues Crisscross Apple Sauce Vase Inspiration for this piece is from Native American pottery.  One day playing with my four year...

Description This Lost Wood Vase begins as an assembly of three layers of wood. On the outside are two layers of Sapele and in the center...

Copper Finish Wood Bowl is an Elm bowl featuring a decorative rim band.  The finish is copper with an oxidizing agent to provide an...

Description Walk Like An Egyptian.  It is a fact that Starfish do silly things. This is the fourth Starfish piece in the series. I am now...

Description Wood Carved Poppy Flower is a Bradford Pear that features turning, carving and staining. Cup burrs are tools familiar to...

Description The inspiration for Sand Dollars Bowl is Mother Nature.  During a beach vacation everyone searches the shoreline hoping to...

Description Hurricane Sandy Platter is an unusual piece of wood is from a 30 year old weeping cherry. Notice the horizontal line dividing...

Description This Topless Platter is a Cherry platter wood from Hurricane Sandy damage.   Notice the horizontal line dividing the center...

Crawford Coral Bowl is a box elder wood hollow form.  I start with a hollow form shape. Then I carve and pierce the wood and finish with...

Description Monkey Cookie Jar is what I consider a design opportunity.  While turning a vase a knot appears with a void. Now I am stuck...

Collaboration Duncan Vessel and Lid features an European antique porcelain lid from the 1800’s that is missing its base.  It is a gift to...

Description My friend, Dennis Fuge, is a wonderful artist who uses various techniques to embellish his work.  I found a large log on the...

Description It has been so hot and sunny this summer that even this Freckles Elm Bowl wood has freckles. This is an extraordinary...

Description Mother Nature offers an abundance of inspiration. Here are seed pods that you may find on the floor in the forest.  I take a...

Spike Sea Urchin is a sculptural attempt to copy Mother Nature. We all love scavenging the shoreline for beach keepsakes. Spike features...

Description Sea Lace Urchin inspiration comes for a combination of shell, coral and sea urchin fragments found washed up on the beach....

Design Opportunity Go Fly A Kite Bowl is a bowl with a return rim that developed a hairline crack while drying. Some might see this as a...

Description While making the Red Sea Urchin I was happy with the shape, but found the Maple too bland in color.  I began to carve sloping...

Design Opportunity From Bowl To Sculpture Sea Worms Wood Sculpture that started as a bowl gone bad.  As the wood dried the bowl twisted...

Description Angry Wood Sea Urchin is a wood sculpture taking many attempts and several months to complete.  My goal is to recreate in...