Dark Green Bowl

This maple bowl is painted with dark green milk paint. Food-safe beeswax and walnut oil finish inside.

Approximately: 14" x 5" 

From the Artist, Mark Gardner:

"I was born and grew up in Cincinnati, OH. Woodworking was my father’s hobby and I was introduced to it through him and I feel lucky to have started learning woodworking as a teenager. Dad had a lathe and I fooled around on it from time to time but it wasn’t until I attended a two week woodturning class at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in 1996 that I was “hooked” on the turning process.

I moved to Saluda, NC in 2000 and have been able to focus on my woodworking since opening my own studio there.  In addition to making my work, I teach and demonstrate woodturning around the country for woodturning clubs and craft schools.

I make a wide variety of functional and decorative objects from locally sourced hardwoods.  Most of my work tends towards the simple in form which allows me a canvas to embellish the surfaces using various carving and texturing techniques, such as engraving, wire-brushing and branding. To help make these patterns and textures stand out on the work I use milk paint to create contrast between the wood tones and the paint.

My salad bowls are user friendly and food safe as I use a walnut oil and beeswax finish on them that I make myself. When making these I start with a whole log and cut out slabs with a chainsaw.  These are cut into large disks on a bandsaw before mounting on the lathe to be rough turned to bowl shape. These “roughed out” bowls are dried in a kiln for a couple months until dry and then remounted on the lathe for final turning and sanding."