After more than four decades as a broadcaster Alex Burton decided he wanted something more permanent than throwing words and ideas into the air. He became a wood turner. The wood turner must be respectful of the wood in his lathe. The wood will determine what it wishes to be. Wood turners seek stumps and slabs that hold knots, incipient rot and worm holes. Some times he seeks bits of bark or stains from natural processes. Each piece is unique. The woodturner’s art is revelatory.

Burton has made bowls, buckles and items for the kitchen from local woods. Some of his work is widespread as admirers of something unique have sent his work abroad. Now you have an opportunity to view some of the his pieces. If you have a treasured plank from a family barn or outstanding branch from a tree on the homestead, you might give it Burton and ask that he turn it into something useful : a bowl, a plate, a utilitarian drinking vessel or maybe just a nice round stick you can use to point out sites of interest to visitors in your community.

Contact Burton at 214-828-1606.... or misymaj@gmail.com

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