About
I came to this from a classroom, not a woodshop.
I make serving boards, serving circles, and wall sculpture in wood and resin, out of a home workshop in Asheville, North Carolina.
It started with whittling figurines in the early 1990s. A few cabinetry classes and a lot of power tool purchases later I was building bandsaw boxes, furniture, picture frames, and custom game boards. Then I found epoxy resin, and the serving boards followed.
I am a graduate of Berklee College of Music, and I spent my career teaching — math first, then web, hardware, and software. Both ends of that turn up in the work.
"My science brain loves the planning stage — the geometry of cutting a board to fit within the confines of a mold and the calculation of the volume of resin needed to fill the void. All that math is meditative for me. My artistic side relishes the freedom of playing with color, contrast, space, and shape. And all of me loves the power tools!"
The process
Wood is selected for grain and figure, cut to fit a mold, poured with tinted epoxy, then flattened, sanded through progressive grits, and finished with a food-safe hardwax oil.
The materials
Curly maple, cherry, walnut, ambrosia maple, and hand-dyed hardwood. Resin is tinted by hand, which is why no two pours come out the same.
Where to see it
STUDIO 2B7 in the Wedge Building, Asheville, and The Gallery at Flat Rock. The work is made in a home workshop and shown in both.