Born and educated in New York, Ted graduated from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan with a BFA in  Illustration. He practiced illustration for 16 years while actively woodworking / woodturning as a hobby. He has  studied the human figure extensively through drawing and appreciates the subtle nuances of contour found in all of nature. He now applies those subtle forms within the medium of wood with respect to woodturning.Ted has been practicing woodturning full time for the past 11 years. He is well known for his  skills in turning elegant peppermills of various designs for sale at Art & Craft shows and as demonstrations for local woodturning clubs and regional and national woodturning symposiums . He is also the author of the  DVDMaking Candlesticks-Seeing the Curvesas well as the Co-author ofThe Heating with Wood DVD Set.