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artist bio

the artist jim parker harvesting logs for bowls

Jim Parker is the retired financial officer for a medium size company headquartered in central Virginia. His corporate career spanned over 4 decades. Throughout his life, he has enjoyed all forms of woodworking projects – building decks, sheds, boat docks and furniture. Initially after retirement, he worked out of his shop in North Carolina – making Adirondack style furniture and small wooden gifts for friends, including wooden bowls. He also apprenticed with a local fine furniture workshop to learn techniques and processes relating to the building and finishing of custom fine furniture.

 

Currently, he creates unique turned wooden, wood/resin bowls, pepper mills and custom woodworking pieces in his shops in Northside Richmond VA and Littleton NC.

artist statement

Throughout my life, I have enjoyed working with wood. I have found that turning is a process I really love – searching for fallen trees, cutting the logs, determining grain patterns and, in general, being creative with a chain saw – all culminating with turning each individual and unique bowl on my lathe. The process supports my logical mindset, stirs my creativity and energizes my passions as each work is revealed. 

affiliations

American Association of Woodturners

Richmond Woodturners, Richmond Virginia

If you see somthing you like, have questions, or just want to chat about some of the things you see here on this Jim Parker Turned Wood site,

please contact me by clicking the button below, email me at jim@jpwoodturner.com or call me at 804-314-8268. I'd be happy to chat. 

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