Woodwork is my life’s passion. Over the last 25 years I’ve built everything from tables, chairs, bathrooms and kitchen cabinets to entire houses. My favorite kind of woodwork, however, is bowl making. Like the mythical alchemist who changes lead into gold, I get to witness the metamorphosis of an old fallen tree at the end of its life being reborn as a new bowl, smooth and clean, yet retaining something of its wild natural self in the dance of grain and color that were so well hidden beneath the old rough bark.
A hand-turned bowl is like a window into the wild beauty of nature in a refined vessel that can bring magic to any table. Sharing this art with you gives me great joy.