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Description Shot Through The Heart Vase is wood from a plum tree outside our dining room window until it died from insect damage. Notice...

This Bent Wood Jewelry Bracelet is an exploration of unusual shapes and configurations that are possible by conditioning wood so it...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

Design Opportunity Four Sails For Sale is a concept that came about as a design opportunity.  My original intention was to make a bowl...

Description Sometimes wood is dreadfully ugly and needs some help.  My plan for Meteorite Crater Bowl is a bowl with heavy walls.  Once...

Description We Are Having A Baby Vase is inspired by the art of Keith Haring.  It was made as a gift for my son and daughter-in-law...

Description This Conga Drum Vase is end grain of an apple log. The size is 10 by 6.5 tapering to 4 inches at the base. Each section...

Beach Treasures This  Blond Sea Urchin Wood Hollow Form featuring techniques that include turning, carving, piercing, bleaching and...

Matisse Inspiration So You Think You Can Dance Bowl is inspired by the work of Henri Matisse. When he became ill and could no longer...