Back to the farm

Back to the farm today and overnight to retrace my inspiration. Along for the ride is Steve from Lloyd-Smith Photography who will endeavour to capture video and stills of my journey from farming dust to saw dust. 
We're putting together a short documentary to show before a demonstration.
And a chance to catch up with my Dad.

UK Wood Carving

UK Wood Carving magazine asked for a 1 page article on a wood carved piece.....this was in their  Jan/Feb issue

AAW Demonstration

Timetable for demonstrating at AAW (American Association of Woodturning)
Friday 3.50pm - 5.20pm, room 11-12
Saturday 10.30am - 12 noon, room 11-12

Three Spirits

An experiment in bent laminations...

International Turning Exchange

Demonstration piece for ITE. Jacaranda vase, 300mm H x 120mm D

Ubud Bali

Arrived home after spending 6 days in a Ubud retreat developing concepts and ideas for an exhibition at Linton & Kay Galleries St Georges Tce Perth in 2014, whilst my wife attended a photography workshop....

"Three Spirits"

As I needed a sock like vacuum bag I cut a small truck tyre, securing both ends with polythene pipe. 

"Three Spirits"

With one end secure I slowly bent and attached the veneers to the aluminium former with tape

"Three Spirits"

 After colouring the epoxy glue and wrapping in plastic I used cut bike tyre tub to secure the end

Secure bike tube with tape

"Three Spirits"

A picture was taken and stuck in a prominent position on the wall for later reference.  

"Three Spirits"

Using jarrah and Western Australian blackbutt veneers for contrast

"Three Spirits"

I wanted to investigate sculpture using bent laminations so for South Western Times Survey Exhibition 2013 at  Bunbury Regional Art Galleries thought I'd give this a try.

Using 3 formers made of aluminium, I bent into shape using a round hard cardboard tube to the desired shape

Using hot melt glue and plenty of small pieces of off cuts I finally had a template.

Making sure each piece is numbered and footprint drawn.

POP (Professional Outreach Programme) Exhibition

Finished exhibition piece...........will be shown at American Woodturning Symposium Tampa Florida

Shelving

Cutting, welding steel tubing for raking in the shed to store timber. Finally after 2 years all timber will be neatly stored by length in pigeon holes. This allows more floor space. I will then make movable tables with storage underneath, moveable clamp racks and MDF rack. 

POP Exhibition

Embellishing started 

POP Exhibition

Professional Outreach Programme of American Association of Woodturner 7th Annual invitational exhibition themed 'HARMONY'
Exhibition will be at Gallery of Wood Art in St Paul Minnesota March 3rd - June 7th 2013 then
American Association of Woodturners Symposium Tampa Florida June 27th - 30th 2013.
The piece must fit inside a 6" cube
Some part of the piece must be woodturner....

Sheoak vase with wave and coral design drawn

Online Exhibition

http://crafthaus.ning.com/group/crafting-this-antipodean-place

Ross Annels curated this online exhibition for Crafthaus.... well done Ross, great job

Natural Edge Bowls

Some of the 40 bowls finished  awaiting packaging and shipping to galleries for Christmas

Natural Edge Bowls

A day at the coal face turning outside shape of 27 natural edge bowls. Galleries are needing bowls for Christmas holidays. Thought I'd fossick through my burl bins finding burls I've had for over 5 years. Forgot I even had some of these, salmon gum, yorkgum, rib fruited mallee, red morel & jarrah. So with an initial whiz past the bandsaw then onto the lathe I've got 1 gallery nearly covered.  Just 4 more piles like this and I'll be at the end of the week.

Kalgoorlie

GSTIG (Goldfields Specialty Timber Industry Group Inc) invited me to demonstrate a 2 day workshop out here in Kalgoorlie at John Paul College. What a group these guys are....Ian and Baden really look after you and those specially made sausages at lunch are great. 
All will be  turning a vase then embellishing the outside. I'm trying to push a few in the group that have been turning for quite a while and clearly need some encouragement to take the next step....so boys the inside of the vase will be nice and even. We had a few malfunctions yesterday with 4 vases departing their lathes, but nice to see these guys back again today to try again. 
Just love goldfields timber and will organise to freight different boards back to the coast to use in special projects