John Jordan

Jordan is a seminal artist in this specialist field of International Craft. Through his process of making his unique vessel form, he uses only fresh, green logs which are initially turned on the lathe. Each work is then hand carved and textured, using a variety of different hand and small powered tools. This exquisite and exacting finish can take weeks to complete with little room for error during the carving process. The artists comments that, 'The pieces I make are simple but finely detailed vessels. By manipulating the colour and patterns in the wood I compliment the form. The texture and carving create visual and tactile contrasts which are important parts of the process and result'. John Jordan has featured in nearly every major Wood Turning exhibition over the past twenty years. His work has received numerous awards and is in the permanent collections of a number of major public museums, including The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.