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Michael Newman

Michael Newman's Artwork



Artist Statement

In the mid 1980’s my wife wanted to learn about power tools, so we took an adult education course at the local high school.  I tried the lathe and became hooked.  I was self taught until a few years later when I spent a weekend learning some techniques with a wood turner/teacher in Vermont.

I kept working at the craft and spent a weekend with David Ellsworth, a renowned wood turner, in the late 1990s learning much more about wood turning.  It sometimes seems to me that the wood “told” me how it wanted to be shaped. 

I was an anesthesiologist who developed macular degeneration and had to retire.  Since retiring and in the face of decreasing eyesight [despite the best efforts of Dr. Beer and his associates], I have continued woodturning. 

Pictured are some of my most recent bowls.