MtW: Mike Mahoney

Mike Mahoney has been a professional woodturner since 1994. His bowls are featured in galleries across the United States. Mike’s work is sought after by collectors all over the world. Mike is often requested to demonstrate and teach for woodturning clubs, craft schools, and symposia. He has traveled around the world to discuss and demonstrate his craft and is considered an authority in woodturning.

As you can imagine, Mike produces a lot of bowls and other turnings but he also produces enormous piles of wood shavings.

Interview: Trent Bosch

Woodturner and tool maker

Richard Raffan Interview: No.2

Most Woodturners will be familiar with the name Richard Raffan. Richard is world renowned as a turner, artist and teacher, here is what his entry on Wikipedia has to say about him:

Heather Marusiak Interview:

Hello, everyone! My name is Heather Marusiak and I just started woodturning in the summer of 2020.

Interview: Logan Wittmer

Interview: Greg Gallegos

Hi and thank you for visiting my little island in the sea of woodturning. My name is Greg Gallegos. I have always been artistically inclined since I was very young. It wasn't until high school that I first was introduced to the wood lathe. After school I focused more on print media- drawing and painting. Fast forward to 2000 and I decided to throw myself into woodturning. I took a good five or six years of continual practice and self apprenticeship to be comfortable enough to actually start thinking of selling my work. 

Interview:  Danielle Flowers

MtW: Graham Griffiths 

MtW: Lupe Nielsen

In the business of selling magic tricks & effects since 1956.

Magicians perform worldwide using our magic products.

We are the original manufacturers of the famous Nielsen Vanishing Bottles!

MtW: Ruby Cler

 I am a Woodturner who currently resides in Windsor, Ontario Canada.  I do a variety of forms of woodturning – a lot of commercial work, as much creative work as possible, and I teach all levels of students.  I have skills in other art forms, such as painting and carving, which I try to bring into my work and which naturally seem to influence my pieces.

MtW Marisa Klaster

Sparked by stories, that’s where I start. An intriguing design commission, working together with fellow makers or just by looking closely at the world around. Being an art director for many years I told big stories through design. Now, as a product designer and maker, the same aesthetic and problem solving skills are finely honed in handmade wooden objects with more personal stories to tell. The fusion of functionality and play is central to my form language. I construct tall, sturdy silhouettes using smaller elements, resulting in functional objects that ignite people’s curiosity about the underlying narrative.

‘Product designer Marisa Klaster’s monolithic wooden sculptures, on the other hand, are functional objects built by stacking smaller components one over the other. The fusion of function and play in Klaster’s works urges the viewer’s curiosity.’
Embassies of Design, 2023 

MtW: Shannon Berry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hb4l

 Interview: Christine Smith 

 Interview: Pat Carroll

Working as a builder/carpenter, woodturning was a craft I knew very little about before 2001. I had done some research and found a woodturner in my nearest town. Lucky for me, this woodturner was one of the finest turners in Ireland. Willie Stedmond, one of the founding members of the Irish Woodturners Guild, was giving night classes to which I attended a few. It is always my first advice to anyone interested in woodturning, get some lessons and join a club. I also did the latter and met some great people who helped and encouraged me along the way.

Theo Haralampou Interview:

Theo Haralampou gives another great insight into a woodturners journey, this quote from his website gives you a small taste of the Theo and his work:

 Interview: Louise Wilde

 Interview: Joe Meirhaeghe

 Interview: Barbara Dill

Barbara received a BS degree in Nursing from the University of Tennessee in 1968.  Her career took her to Europe and to East Africa in the early 70’s and her photographs were her souvenirs.  She received a Masters of Psychiatric Nursing from Boston University in 1980 and coordinated psychiatric aspects of emergency departments at Boston City ED and at Medical college of Virginia’s ED. Barbara’s first experience with carving wood was in 1988 at a carving class in Richmond, VA.

Interview: Kez Halliday

 Our passion is to create individual art pieces combining several different materials, techniques and disciplines. The materials we love using the most are metal and wood, we also use techniques such as pyrography, painting and drawing to create detailed and beautiful pieces.

 Interview: Jason Lock

Shaping each piece on the lathe is captivating for me, but whilst I hope my work attracts the eye, I wish for it’s personality to be what captures the heart.