Statement

STATEMENT

All my adult life I have enjoyed working with wood and have built a wide range of things from cottages, to furniture to toys. I get great satisfaction in taking the raw trees trunks and branches and using them to create various things of beauty. What I like about woodturning is it gives me the opportunity to transform these local woods into unique works of art thereby recycled the wood and bringing new life to it. My segmented works open up even more opportunities to express myself by combining different woods to create interesting patterns to compliment my vessel shapes. Being a self taught woodturner I continue to explore new techniques to enhance and improve my work and have recently added metal spinning to my bag of tricks.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in England and emigrating to Canada as a pre-teen I was educated in Winnipeg getting my BSc EE from the University of Manitoba in 1959 and subsequently spent 38 years as a project engineer and engineering manager in the telephone industry in both Manitoba and BC before taking up woodturning in 1997. I am currently a member of the Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild, the Greater Vancouver Woodturners Guild, the BC Wooden Toy Makers Society and the American Association of Woodturners.