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BACK TO ARTWORK Artist's Biography Artist Cliff Lounsbury Designs and executes all studio work at River Turnings, A full-time professional wood turning studio. Cliff’s unique style is recognized nationally and resides in many collections. His work has been accepted in numerous metropolitan museums’ permanent collections. Cliff feels strongly about using wood native to his home. Thus he creates most of his work in chokecherry burl, indigenous to northern Michigan. Chokecherry is widely considered a menace species, so cliff derives pleasure from turning exquisite vases from so called bad wood. The wood’s intense patterns and gnarled variations continually astound and challenge cliff. Cliff uses a lathe---a machine that’s spins a block of wood---to make his work. He maneuvers a series of chisels across the wood to shape and hollow his forms. He wishes he could spend more time at the lathe, less time sanding. Nonetheless, his process involves sanding, sanding and sanding some more. He finishes his work with oil or lacquer, to achieve matter or glassy finishes respectively. Cliff often uses his turned vessels as canvas upon which he adds intricate carvings. Cliff considers it a privilege to do this work as livelihood for this family and thanks you for your interest.
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