Woodturning Bowl Shapes

It was made easier by having a brief. I photographed mud flats and pools created over time from receding tidal action. Developing Ideas web.

He was producing bowls at the time with rock and landscape interpretations. 30 hours of work was involved in completing the piece. There are also some constructed forms made from sections through pictures. My reference for the brief was local coast and estuaries one of many recurring themes in my work. Playing and collaging sections can reveal unusal woodturning bowl shapes and textures which can provide starting points for idea development. There was evidence of birds, crustacean and worms holes in the surface of the mud.

Here is an old piece of work from 7 years ago and was probably my first serious attempt at expressing myself with woodturning bowl shapes. With a few exceptions I saw nothing that fitted with contemporary vision found in other craft disciplines. The brief was to produce a woodturning bowl shapes for the millennium celebration with an ecological theme. .

In searching for a start point, Michael Petersons work came to mind. I often visit the coast and a couple of days ago did some beachcombing, a few examples of reference are shown below. I guess with better lathe equipment and the facility/knowledge to reverse chuck the piece, I could have corrected this woodturners. The flat top was carved into with a variety of tools including hand carving chisels and mallet, rotary burrs and finished with hand files and sanding. JoAnne Lyon) at General Conference. It was also great to see Binh Phos actual work rather than the less significant imitations around at the moment. This was an entry for a competition (arrogant to say the least as I had only turned a few pieces).