John Castner is a woodturner and live-edge wall artist working in burl, spalted, and figured woods from his studio in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. His pieces find the form hidden in the wood rather than impose one on it: hollow vessels with paper-thin walls, wall reliefs that follow the natural edge, bowls polished until the grain reads like topography.
John learned in the lineage of the late David Ellsworth, the pioneer of hollow-form turning and founder of the American Association of Woodturners, whose Quakertown school — eight miles down the road — shaped two generations of American turners.
Each piece in this collection is one of one. The wood decides.
