“Already as a child, I came into contact with wood while helping my parents collect wood for the oven to keep warm during the winter.

After many years of not thinking about it and working in the IT industry, I came across a magazine about woodturning in 2005. Since I didn’t have a clue how a bowl could be produced, I wanted to learn through a woodturning course. After attending a two-day workshop at DNS (a well-known woodturning school in Neckarsteinach, Germany), I was hooked.

Since then, I have attended many courses with well-known woodturners, and additionally I have also taken courses in stone sculpting and working with other materials.

In 2015, I made the decision to work part-time in order to dedicate more time to the field of creative woodturning and woodworking, focusing on boxes, bowls, hollow forms, wooden lamps, and sculptures. I show my work at art fairs, galleries, and other art exhibitions.

I usually work with locally grown timber — wood that is already available and would otherwise be disposed of.

I try to let the wood speak for itself, and when suitable, I apply texture and/or color to it.”