NWT Arts

I've been living in the NWT since 1981.  I was born and raised in Toronto.  I've spent a lot of time around wood.  I've heated homes in Deline and Yellowknife with it.  I make birch syrup along the Ingraham Trail.   After retiring from a teaching career in 2018,  I began turning wood using local birch, pine and tamarack. I harvest the wood in March and let it dry in the bush over summer.  I've attended a few workshops down south.  The grain of tamarack is very distinctive and makes attractive end grain cutting boards.  I've attended local craft shows and set up a booth at the Farmer's Market. Some of my work can be found in local galleries.  My work also has been put into silent auctions.  It's rewarding to transform a local resource into something beautiful and useful.