| is something I've been interested in for as long as I can remember. After twenty seven years as a professional furniture maker, being in the shop is as much a life style as a job. Designing and making furniture is a passion of mine that in the best of times is an ongoing process of exploration. It's avocation and vocation, work and play.
to elemental pursuits. Woodworking is one of the basic hands-on vocations that maintains its basic honesty even in polished refinement.
really hasn't changed all that much over the past century. Machinery has developed and some tools have changed. The raw material, from this generation of trees comes through the shop door looking nearly the same as it did in yesteryear. The success of the finished piece depends on the skill and experience of the craftsman.
. Craftsman such as Sam Maloof, Alan Peters and George Nakshima, as well as Charles and Henry Greene, Charles Rennie Makintosh and the Shakers have all been influences and inspiration of my work. Individual pieces form various disciplines inspire me more than any one historical period.
- Best of Show Award
Northwest Juried Art Show
Apple Valley Arts Festival
- Pacific Northwest Arts and Craft Fair
Active Arts Cash Award
"Rocker in Walnut"
- Bellevue Art Museum
Visual Arts Juried Show
Active Arts Cash Award
- North Central Washington Museum
Wenatchee, WA
"Contemporary Wood Design" Invitational Show
- Northwest Fine Woodworking
Seattle, WA
One man show "Chairs and Cradles"
- Interior Designers of Idaho
2001 "Chair Affair" design competition
"Best Functional Design" and "Best Professional Design"
for "Cashmere Rocker"
- Interior Designers of Idaho
2000 "Chair Affair" design competition
"Best Craftsmanship Award" for "Quartet Dining Chair"
- Cashmere Valley Record
"Art You Can Sit On"
- Northwest Edition Magazine
"Chelan Woodworker"
- Wenatchee World
"Furniture, Wood Sculpture Highlight Exhibit At Museum"
- Cashmere Valley Record
"Career Launched By Accident Brings Him Acclaim"
- Wenatchee World
Front page feature article on my shop and work.
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