Picasso Inspired Platter
This Picasso Inspired Platter is a piece from an early Picasso drawing. I draw the pattern onto the wooden platter. Then I carve deep...
Crawford Coral Bowl
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...
Monkey Cookie Jar
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...
Duncan Vessel and Lid
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...
Antique Knock Off Bowl
Description Antique Knock Off Bowl is an experiment with color and texture. I threw everything at this piece using pyrography for...
No Sap Here
Description No Sap Here is a Hollow Form Spirit Vessel. The wood is walnut. The white sapwood is covered with black texture and the dark...
Square Platter with Trim
Square Platter with Trim is an early experiment in combining contrasting woods in a turning piece. Starting with a square block of...
Vanilla Chocolate Swirl Burl
Description Vanilla Chocolate Swirl Burl came out of a 800 pound maple burl that I harvested with a friend on a llama farm. My best...
Fuge Wood Sculpture
Description My friend, Dennis Fuge, is a wonderful artist who uses various techniques to embellish his work. I found a large log on the...
Freckles Elm Bowl
Description It has been so hot and sunny this summer that even this Freckles Elm Bowl wood has freckles. This is an extraordinary...
Cooper Wood Antique Quartet
Description Cooper Wood Antique Quartet is a set of Madrone wood vessels featuring copper paint and an acid wash to create the antique...
Madrone Maroon Bowl
Description Madrone Maroon Bowl is a wood that exhibits tremendous movement as it dries. Fresh cut wood is a delight to work with if you...
Seed Pods
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
Spike Sea Urchin is a sculptural attempt to copy Mother Nature. We all love scavenging the shoreline for beach keepsakes. Spike features...
Sea Lace Urchin
Description Sea Lace Urchin inspiration comes for a combination of shell, coral and sea urchin fragments found washed up on the beach....
Go Fly A Kite Bowl
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...
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Description I Want To Hold Your Hand is my third piece in the Starfish series. This is a hollow form sphere and I am no longer certain of...
Red Sea Urchin
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...
Adirondack Tool Theme Chair
Child Size Adirondack Chairs At two years of age I create a theme chair for each grandchild. This is Oliver’s Adirondack Tool Theme...
Sea Worms Wood Sculpture
Design Opportunity From Bowl To Sculpture Sea Worms Wood Sculpture that started as a bowl gone bad. As the wood dried the bowl twisted...