GREEN WOODWORK & WOODLAND CRAFTS
Julian Shaw, 'The English Woodturner' professional woodturner, artist, teacher and woodworking historian, has been a green woodworker since 1992. As a woodturner, he has been making bowls from green wood since 1992. He exhibited at the American Craft Council's San Francisco Show for 4 years, and has sold his work at many other prestigous Art and Crafts shows and galleries. In 2000, he started teaching classes in woodturning at local woodworking colleges and runs regular turning classes at the WoodCraft Store in Santa Rosa. In 2004, he started the Green Woodwork Program: working freshly cut logs, using hand-tools to make functional items for use in the home and garden. When not teaching, Julian can be found in his architectural turning workshop making posts, ballusters, finials, and other functional turned items, such as bowls and rolling pins.
Member of Greenwoodworking / Bodging Group :
He established and teaches an outdoors woodworking program using traditional hand tools and techniques to the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades at the Sebastopol Independent Charter School in Sebastopol.
Member of American Association of Woodturners:
