Yestermorrow

At the end of the month I'll be teaching a five day class called " Cabinets and Built-ins" at the Yestermorrow Design School in Warren, VT.  The objective of the class is that myself and the students will build a commission piece for a client while learning along the way.  These two quick drawings are the final design of the kitchen Island we'll be building.  Please follow our progress as I'll be posting regularly.



Evolution

I'm teaching a workshop called " Cabinets and Built Ins" at the Yestermorrow Design School in Warren, VT at the end of October.  The premise of the course is that I'm partnered with a client who has commissioned me ( the school) to build a piece for them.  I design the project and then in 5 days myself and the students build the piece for the client.  Her are some quick thumbnail sketches I sent to the client.  We are designing and building a kitchen island.  The client has specific details we are incorporating into the design.  These sketches are quick and are meant to start a dialogue.  The client will then say yes to some parts and no to others. Eventually we'll hone in on a design.

Windows Worcester

Arts Worcester has a program called " Worcester Windows" where they display art work in the windows of local businesses.  I was asked to display a chair I made.  There are two other artist involved.  I'm not sure if Lindsey or Bayda created this beautiful large egg made out of strips of wood.  You can walk into and sit inside the egg.  The form is reminiscent of some of Martin Puryears' work.  If you're in downtown Worcester please stop by Arts Worcester and see the work.  The display windows are across the street

from the gallery.

 

Fire and Ice

Liesl and I both currently have work on display at the Aurora gallery as part of Arts Worcester annual members exhibition. The name of the exhibition is " Fire and Ice"

I am showing my tea lights and Liesl is showing a piece title " Sprout 3". The exhibition runs from now until

Nov. 19th

For more information on the exhibition please visit www.artsworcester.org



Ah' So Much Potential

This might not look like much right now but I've been lugging these red maple sticks around with me for a while.  Last year Wayne Hall taught a rustic furniture making class at Peters Valley. He inspired me so much that I've been keeping all of the leftovers from that class, just waiting for an opportunity to make a rustic style chair.  Rustic furniture gets the short end of the stick, no pun intended, o-kay- it was, I was really impressed with the detail to design and the sensitivity to material use Wayne has and taught his students.  The end results were beautiful.

I am building a rustic chair for the television show " The Garage"  A perfect opportunity.  I'll be using red maple for the chair and shaker style woven seat tape for the seat of the chair.  I'll post the progress.