Since I was very young I have been around wood. My father owned a sawmill in SC and I worked with him in the summers. After a career in computers, my wife, Linda, and I owned an art gallery for nine years. I started turning wood about twelve years ago. We sold our shop and now travel doing art shows throughout the U.S. Linda is a mixed media jeweler and between us we will do about 35 shows this year from Florida to Montana.