Reaching For The Stars
Reaching For The Stars is a continuation of my Starfish series. It features an open top and bottom which creates lightness and lift. It...
Madrone Bowl Stack
This Madrone Bowl Stack is a group of 4 turnings. Madrone is a wood that changes shape when it dries. The objective is to understand if...
Chinese Bi Quartet
This Chinese Bi Quartet represents a series of Bi’s that you will find on exhibit in major museum collections. They are usually stone or...
Stella Meets Mondrian
Collaboration Stella Meets Mondrian in this sculpture where all of the pieces are from one large vase from which I cut all the...
Night and Day Sculpture
Night and Day Sculpture is an inspirational piece by the art of Rene Magritte. Looking from the top view you see the Day. Reverse the...
Oliver’s Wood Planets
Oliver’s Wood Planets is a birthday gift to my Grandson Oliver. He made a request for the Solar System for his fourth birthday. What...
Winter Branches Platter
Winter Branches Platter is an experiment to be able to make a wood platter and a wood block that will be able to produce a wood cut...
Sedona Sunset
Sedona Sunset reminds me of my visits to Sedona. Looking out to the hills and desert with their incredible colors and the texture of the...
Four Commissioned Seating Stools
Commission Work Four Commissioned Seating Stools or Plant stands turned from Ash, Cherry, Beech and Oak logs. These stools are the trial...
Genesis Wooden Bowl
Description Genesis Wooden Bowl came about as a what I often refer to as a design opportunity. This is when things do not go as planed...
Crisscross Apple Sauce Vase
Culture Issues Crisscross Apple Sauce Vase Inspiration for this piece is from Native American pottery. One day playing with my four year...
Lost Wood Vase
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
Copper Finish Wood Bowl is an Elm bowl featuring a decorative rim band. The finish is copper with an oxidizing agent to provide an...
Walk Like An Egyptian
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...
Bowls Grow On Trees
Description Bowls Grow On Trees is to show that bowls evolve by spinning a log on a lathe. A tool which looks like a chisel approaches...
Scallop Shell Wood Bowl
My goal was to make a piece that did not have perfect machine like cuts. I wanted something inspired by nature that was irregular and...
Sand Dollars Bowl
Description The inspiration for Sand Dollars Bowl is Mother Nature. During a beach vacation everyone searches the shoreline hoping to...
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...
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...