The Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation on Historic Main Street

 Jack Fifield: Wood Turner

 

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McKee, Kentucky

Jack Fifield and Susan O'Brien Exhibition

November 8 - December 30, 2000

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"Every step in the process is an adventure. Finding that twisted or burly old tree--blown down or left by loggers--is like receiving a wrapped present, just knowing there's something great inside."

Most of Jack's pieces are turned green--fresh from the woods and still wet. This suits his "immediate-gratification-type personality." They dry as he turns them and continue to dry slowly off the lathe, creating an extremely smooth surface with the natural ripples and warps that wood is all about.

His workshop is a log building he and his wife built across the pond from their home. It looks out onto the Appalachian forest where there's more wood on the ground than he could turn in a few lifetimes. A land full of inspiration "everywhere" he looks. Because "curves are everywhere."

Jack was the recipient of a Brown-Forman Early Times Scholarship in 1998. He serves as a member of the KACF Artists Advisory Panel. Congratulations and thanks Jack!

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