June 28 - AAW Symposium - arrival ...

Well June 28 was a pretty big day in my life. After a beautiful drive to Portland we drove directly to our hotel close to the airport. The Embassy Suites Hotel Portland-Airport. After sorting out our baggage off we went to the Oregon Convention Centre where the symposium was held.

The place was humming!. Before we even got to the registration desk Andi had introduced Gigi, John and I to a bunch of her woodturner friends. We were also immediately sidetracked into an exhibition room where there was an interesting triple exhibition on display.

The first was an exhibition of the work of the first Professional Outreach Programme (POP) Merit Award Winners, Giles Gilson, Stephen Hogbin and Mark Lindquist


Giles Gilson













Giles Gilson



















Giles Gilson


















Giles Gilson


















Giles Gilson

















Stephen Hogbin


















Mark Lindquist



























Mark Lindquist

















Traditional Japanese Woodturning

The second was of traditional Japanese woodturning techniques, primarily featuring urishi-ware.



Japanese turnings

Highly laquered and mostly very delicate

















I really loved these small curvaceous soy sauce containers

Keyaki soy sauce container in Zelkova by

Yasuhiro Satake














Beautifully curved, proportioned and crafted


Another Keyaki soy sauce container in Zelkova by

Yasuhiro Satake






A highly laquered piece by

Takehito Nakashima











Tochi platter in Japanese Horse Chestnut by

Takehito Nakashima












Red lacquer bowls by Yoshinari Satake

What a beautiful finish











Keyaki platter by

Ryozo Kawakita











Really beautiful vases in Northern Silky Oak by

Yasuhiro Satake
















Keyaki tea cup container in Zelkova by

Ryozo Kawakita
















Lid detail of the piece above












Bottom left

Sen No Ki sweets serving tray in Castor Aralia by

Yoshinary Satake










And continuing the Japanese theme ...

The next exhibition was also remarkable.

JAPANESE BOWLS - A WESTERN PERSPECTIVE

You can download a beautiful pdf catalogue of all these wonderful pieces from the AAW web site (1.2Mb)



Click on the picture to read all about the exhibition






And here is an example of the Japanese bowl that was provided to all the 'Western' artists as their canvas











The Japanese turners were given the opportunity to choose three pieces and the remainder were auctioned

These are the three chosen pieces by:
Mike Lee
Marilyn Campbell and
Jacques Vessery






This stunning piece by Jacques Vessery


















Betty Scarpino













Mike Lee


















Marilyn Campbell













Butch Smuts (South Africa) (bottom)

and

Ray Key (top)









David Sengal

Steve Sinner

Alan Lacer









Andi Wolfe (front)

Sharon Doughtie (back)











Vic Wood

Art Liestman

Giles Gilson









Clay Voster

Clay visited us in Cape Town recently
















Bin Pho

Dale Larson just peeking around the corner











Bonnie Klein

Bill Luce

Trent Bosch








Michael Hosaluk

Mike Scott

Pat Kramer










Steve Loar

















Don Derry













Richard Raffan

Curt Theobold

Irene Grafert

Behind

Meryll Saylan

Mark Sfirri



Johannes Michaelson

J Paul Fennell











And then we popped by Bonnie Klein's domain

Bonnie and Nick Cooke (not pictured) organise the youth programme at AAW











Bonnie chatting to John Wessels





Andi Wolfe has a blog post showing her perspectives of the day here.