Nick is a nationally known woodturner living in Marietta, Georgia. He grew up around his father's woodworking equipment and became interested in the art of woodturning in the mid-70s after several years in furniture design and manufacture. A founding member of the American Association of Woodturners, Nick served six years on the board of directors, including one as vice president.

In addition to creating one-of-a-kind pieces and his staple gift items, Nick teaches and lectures on various woodturning topics, has written articles for several woodworking magazines, and produced two woodturning videos. Nick's Website

Dale has been turning wood for over 30 years.  Located in Gresham, Oregon, he primarily turns bowls using local hardwoods such as Pacific Madrone and Big-Leaf Maple. His  functional and beautiful work is much admired by collectors and wood workers alike and can be found in private collections all over the world.

Dale demonstrates and teaches extensively both in the US and abroad.  He also writes for several woodworking and turning journals including The American Woodturner. He is a founding member of the Portland area Cascade Woodturners and has been an active member of the AAW for over 20 years. He currently serves on the AAW Board of directors.

Art's entry into the world of woodturning came in the mid 90's while he was making experimental musical instruments. The lathe was just the tool needed to make some parts for an automated programmable xylophone. After making that instrument, he continued turning wood and eventually it took over his life. His work is strictly non-functional, ranging from small pieces of "shelf jewelry" to larger sculptural works. Much of his work has a humorous or whimsical quality, but a few are more serious. He prefers to use local woods, primarily big leaf maple, with occasional bits of other woods for accents.

Art's work is in collections all over the world. He has written articles for turning and woodworking magazines and is also in demand as a demonstrator and teacher at national and regional symposia and woodturning clubs.

Art's Website

Born in Africa in 1959, Alain lived near Paris until the end of his studies at the National School of Art of Cergy-Pontoise. He then decided to work for several building companies near Paris as a mason and carpenter. After a first course in woodturning in 1987 he developed his own production in green wood from the south of France, especially green hollowing techniques. He produced vessels, vases, dishes, salad bowls, lamps, lamp shades and unique pieces known for their thinness. For ten years, he has been working on original and new shapes like flowers turned into fresh roots or burls. He also developed his own techniques for turning large off-center pieces. He carves these forms to obtain creatures both vegetable and animal. These sculptures all begin with greenwood turning and then use the distortion of the drying wood to get “living” objects.

He has been exhibiting in France, England, USA , Australia, Switzerland and Germany. He took part in the 1998 “International Woodturning Exchange” artist residency organized by the Woodturning Center. He work appears in many collections, galleries and museums in USA and France, and he currently travels to demonstrate and teach his techniques throughout the world . Alain's Website

Jason is originally from the UK where he studied Sculpture and Ceramics at Birmingham Collage of Art, followed by a woodwork apprenticeship and discovery of the lathe in the late 70s. Jason established a fulltime woodturning studio in Canada in 1980. Since then he has been recognized internationally for his innovative and original pieces and is one of Canada’s most distinguished woodturners.

Known particularly for his signature Helmet series, Jason also produces architectural scale Tapestry Wall pieces and a large range of objects inspired by Vancouver Island’s forests, rivers and wildlife. He has taught woodturning since 1983, in Canada and the US, and apprentice-trained several contemporary woodturners.

Graeme was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand and worked as a radio technician for Telecom. He took voluntary severance in 1989 and started woodturning. He is mainly self taught with a lot of advice and inspiration from other woodturners. In his first four years his emphasis was on using very decorative timber and applying simple form so as not to overshadow the natural beauty of the timber. While this is still a dominant factor in some of his work he now spends more time creating pieces where design is the dominant factor. These pieces tell stories about who he is, where he lives and the things in life about which he is most passionate.

Graeme has won numerous awards for his turned pieces, which have been included in exhibitions in New Zealand, Japan, France, Germany, USA and Canada. Recently one of Graeme's creations achieved the distinction of being featured on a New Zealand postage stamp.

Graeme's Website