Artist's Profile

Woodworker Davis spent his professional years as head of two Florida corporations. With leisure time to be filled, the retired executive revived his interest in woodcraft, dormant since his teen years in Industrial Arts classes.

Largely self-taught, he works from his studio/shop in Waynesville, NC, surrounded by logs, stumps, branches, roots, and other natural resources waiting to become useful art. Bartered treasures from others - pottery and glass - add artistic function to his turned bowls, trays and trivets. Glass oil candles spring from loggers’ rejected knotty burls, reflecting his evolving woodworking style. Another interest, motorhome travel, presents opportunity to gather unusual additions to his raw materials: Florida beach driftwood, California redwood roots, Louisiana swamp cypress and pecan, Mississippi tupelo and weathered South Carolina barn wood.

His latest series involves the use of native hardwoods layered alternately with imported exotic hardwoods to impart new color, pattern and textural variety.

Davis attended the University of Miami and has studied at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. He is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the American Association of Woodturners and Carolina Mountain Woodturners.

Promoting his craft whenever possible he has taught it to at-risk teens at Eckerd Youth Alternatives Camp, Hendersonville, NC and to private students at his woodworks.

In 2001 and again in Fall 2002, his passion to share his gift for creating functional art earned an invitation to submit several works for auction to benefit the expansion of the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA.

Winchester Woodworks
466 Winchester Creek Road
Waynesville, NC 28786 USA

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PHONE: (828) 421-2693