Thanks for the show!

We had our show today, Three F's, and it was a great success. Thanks to everyone who came out and thanks to Nik and Adam for showing their work with me. An extra special thanks to the fine folks at Sablétine fine pastries for hosting us.

A New Show - Three F's

There's a new show coming up featuring the work of me and a couple of my friends. There will be great photographs, fantastic fashion, and some nice furniture. It will all weave together with the themes of wood and destruction.

Reception and show are from 2-5pm, Sunday February 7th, at Sabletine Fine Pastries, 203 King St. S., Waterloo ON.

Come out, bring your friends, and come see some great local art and craft!

End of the line...and the Globe Fall Sale - November 20-22

So I've come to the decision to close down my workshop at the Globe Studios. It's a great place and I'm sad to have to let it go, but I'm low on funds and time, so life will have to rumble on. My PhD has me spending time in labs doing things like motion tracking (seen below) and computer modeling, and this means I've been stretching myself thin.

I'll be working out of Globe until the end of December, so I hope to put on one more show sometime in January with the work I complete between now and then. I think it will mostly consist of lighting, and hopefully some fashion from a friend of mine (that is still TBD). There's also the Globe fall sale coming up on November 20, 21, and 22. I'll have a couple coffee tables and some lamps for sale, including this curvaceous beauty:

Show Pictures

Sam...

George...

...and James...

So the show went real well last night. My friend Peter did the three great drawings of Sam Maloof, George Nakashima, and James Krenov that you can see above and I had some new pieces as well. The table below came from my friend Mohrgan's tree and is a fabulous bookmatched set from a crotch of his Maple tree.

I'm getting my head around the butterfly joint and I'm getting confident in making them nice and tight. I used some Jatoba for the butterflies and I really like the colour match with the maple. Speaking of colour, the Padauk desk seen below came out really well.

Padauk is a wood most people don't know about and it's funny how many people asked me how I stained the top to get it that colour. Stain is not really something I use very often (or ever really) and it's funny to see the perplexed look on peoples' faces when I tell them that that's what the real colour is. So all in all a good night, and a special thanks to all of you who made it out!

A Show! With Cake!!!

I've been talking about doing a little show for a while now and I finally got around to booking a space and setting a date. It's going to be on Friday October 23rd, in the evening sometime. Details still need to be sorted out, but I'll be sharing the space with a friend of mine, Peter, who's a painter. It should be an interesting show and at the very least there will be some cake!