IT STARTS WITH A TREE

AND A VISION.

These are combined

with skill and patience

to create beautiful

hand crafted wooden urns.

AN EXPLORATION OF FORM, GRAIN, AND COLOR

Every tree is special and unique.

So many factors come together — species, soil, neighboring trees, sunlight, insects, weather, wildlife, time — to develop such beauty. Each section of the tree has different grain, shape, and color. Woodturning gives me the opportunity to explore and accentuate these qualities with each urn, vessel, and bowl I make.

21027 white ash urn
21012 black cherry urn
21019 black birch urn
21024 White ash urn
21026 black birch urn
21025
21030 White ash urn
21003 top
21003 Black birch urn
21031 White ash urn
21029 large white ash complain urn
21029 large companion urn

These two pictures show the same urn. The picture above shows the urn after it has been hollowed out, dried, sanded, and lacquered. The lower picture shows the urn 8 months earlier when I had just started to turn it on the lathe, the wood is from a white ash tree that was growing in view of the window in the picture. I use green unseasoned wood to make urns, it is necessary to work quickly and keep the wood moist as it is being worked. It will crack if it is allowed to dry before the urn is hollowed out. Removing the wood from inside the urn is a slow, tense process, mistakes or miscalculations tend to be disastrous. After the urn is hollowed out it needs to be dried slowly over a period of months before it is finish turned, sanded. and lacquered.

Lathe and large urn