Creativity that flowed through the exhibit pieces by Betty Scarpino, Mike Lee, Carol Brt, Merryll Saylan, Melinda Fawver and Rodger Jacobs were not the typical turned wood. These turners used carving, painting, burning, and other embellishments to create objects that went beyond the turning field. Other objects in the exhibit were of more familiar styles of bowls and hollow vessels. The pieces from Stoney Lamar, Robyn Horn, Bonnie Klein, and David Ellsworth were of a style that you would expect from each of these turners. Stoney Lamar s pieces were unmistakable as were Robyn Horn s pierced pieces.
Horn is from Little Rock, Arkansas.
Lamar is from Saluda, North Carolina. David Sengal s ebonized pieces were also easy to pick out as his pieces, but they still amaze me. Sengal is from Boone, North Carolina. Mike Lee of Hawaii had a piece in the exhibit which was highly carved after turning. The piece in Camphor burl reminded me some of Michael Peterson s driftwood style, but Lee didn t use the bleaching of the wood.