Booth Display

Now that winter is over, I’ve been busy planting my garden and working in the shop getting ready for upcoming shows and classes. This is always a hectic time for me, and a time when I’m being pulled between two things I love…creating in the garden (this is a vegetable garden) and creating in my shop.
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Cherry Clock with ceramic tile face

February is a great month for me…it’s my birthday month (I’m a Groundhog Day baby) and every year Marty (my wife) and I take a trip to Asheville NC on the third weekend in February to attend the Arts & Crafts Conference and Antique Show at the Grove Park Inn. This show is definitely the place for enthusiasts (and collectors) of period pieces from the Arts & Crafts Movement (and lovers of Mission Style and Craftsman Style products). The Grove Park Inn in itself is a piece of work, not to mention all of the contemporary craftsmen that are reproducing products from the period and the actual antiques that you can see (and buy).
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I took some time and spoke with Blue Ridge Country Magazine recently for an interview about my studio and art. You can read the complete interview on their website.

And just so happens that my wife was traveling through Floyd County as I was reading the article as I was in Europe on a work trip, and she told me she found a really beautiful little town in the mountains. And I said, “Oh, what was the name of it?” She said, “Well, it’s Floyd, I think. It had one light. We were on our way to the Blue Ridge Parkway and all these homes had bales of hay or straw out in front, with pumpkins and gourds and mums and some scarecrows,” and she said it was just, you know, enchanting.

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