Early Work

My work between the approximate dates of 1970 and 1995, reflects the early stages of developing woodturning skills, techniques, learning how to effectively contrive a collaboration with the material, and discovering and presenting the inherent beauty of the material itself. Living in Massachusetts at the time, with abundant resources of found wood, I was able to create a large body of decorative work that took full advantage of the material’s color, figuring, grain and texture.

It was in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, however, that I became curious about the intrigue of the vessel form itself—the strong appeal of its fascinating, compelling and inherent mysterious qualities. Most of my subsequent bodies of work concern the aesthetic of the vessel form, one of the most relevant and oldest artifacts of human civilization —timeless and ubiquitous throughout multitudes of cultures, past and present.