Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
-Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Journel Thomas
A self-taught and enthusiastic woodturner, he specializes in salad bowls made from woods native to the southern mountains, which he refers to as “Appalachian exotics.”
These Shaker reproduction boxes are among the most highly crafted we have seen. Made from beautiful local woods, with the identifying characteristic fingers, they can be used for everything in the kitchen and home.
Largely self-taught, Allen works from his studio/shop in Waynesville, NC. Allen is surrounded by great stacks of logs, stumps, branches, roots, castoff cuts, rejected knotty burls, and other natural resources awaiting transformation.
