It’s all about the wood for me. I like creating in harmony with Mother Nature. She’s supplied so much more than just a material to work with. Wood is art. My challenge is to embellish that art, using the lathe and other tools, to enhance the beauty already there. Sometimes, I also get to collaborate with insects or maybe a fungus, and we layer on top of each other’s work.

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Many of my bowls and hollow forms are made from “rescued” wood. Trees, removed from someone’s yard, are “rescued” before they get to the landfill.

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My signature piece is what I call simply a “Sliced Hollow Form”. This is a hollow vessel that I’ve sliced apart and reassembled with pewa (pronounced peh-vah, meaning fish tail - it’s the Hawaiian word for butterfly patches). The slice through the form is another way to access the negative space inside.