August 2018

On 15th August we welcome Ed Oliver woodturning Artist. R.P.T.
In November 2013 Ed discovered Woodturning and what a life changing thing this was to discover. In 2016 he was awarded the AWGB Approved Tutor badge. This has led to him getting involved with the AWGB youth training program, he ran the first of these courses at his studio in February 2017. On the 21st of September 2017 he was accepted on to the Register of Professional Turners. This is a great honour as there are only around 200 people registered in the UK today.
Ed started his woodturning at home in a converted garage workshop. In 2015, he had a fully equipped studio built at his home in Great Chart, Kent. It’s from here that he now teaches the art of woodturning and enhancing your work. He also travels around various clubs demonstrating the art of woodturning.

This is not his first foray with wood, he started his working life as a furniture maker, so has always had a love of wood, but woodturning just has something else about it. Spending time with some of the country’s leading woodturners Ed has learned many new techniques. He took up teaching woodturning to pass these skills on to others.
Ed’s work is quite varied. He loves wood and it’s natural beauty but has also found that enhancing the wood with colours, carving and texturing has opened up many new avenues in his woodturning. Because of this he describes himself as a woodturning artist.