Featured on UNC-TV's Our State (November 2007). Play video: Slow | Fast

Read Jim's article on Layered Bowls, featured in American Woodturner (Winter 2005).

Jim McPhail, demonstrating the turning of a micro-bowl at the Southern Highland Craft Fair in Asheville, North Carolina.

Jim McPhail's work
is currently shown at:

AllanStand Shop at the Folk Art Center
Asheville, NC

Arrowcraft
Gatlingburg, TN

Cumberland Crafts
Middlesboro, KY

Grove Arcade Arts and Heritage Gallery
Asheville, NC

Guild Craft Gallery
Asheville, NC

Parkway Craft Center at Moses Cone Manor
Blowing Rock, NC

Memberships:

Jim McPhail started turning in 1988 and has been a full-time professional since he moved to western North Carolina's mountains in 1994. McPhail has developed a style of small bowl-making involving the lamination of multiple layers of different colors, textures and thicknesses of wood. His bowls generally contain from nine to 21 layers and are one to five inches wide. He is especially well known for his bright, smooth finishes.

2007, No. 231 Mesquite Burl, Cocobolo About 1 inch wide

See more of Jim's fine wood craft
online in his gallery of Current Work!

Also visit his gallery Archive (2002 - 2006).

Woodcraft Experience:

Emphasis on layered bowls. More than twenty years experience designing and producing useful and decorative wood objects.

Design Experience:

More than thirty years creating packaging design, corporate identity design and general print graphics in Chicago, IL, Winston-Salem and Asheville, NC.

Approach to Woodcraft:

Jim's experience in graphic design gives him an understanding of creative concept, form, color, finish and craftsmanship. His layered bowls are composed of woods chosen from a pallet of more than two hundred species.

Publications, Shows, Commissions:

• Handcrafted in the Blue Ridge, Green and Gross, 1997: Featured Craft Artist
• del Mano CERF Benefit Show, 1997 and 1998: Invited Craft Artist
• Seven Sisters Shop and Gallery, 1999 Fall Gallery Show: Invited Craft Artist
• Novartis - Corporate Commissions, 1997 & 2000, Total of 64 bowls for gifts in Switzerland.
• Southern Highland Craft Guild, "Black and White: Revisited", May, 2001. Four bowls exhibited.
• Southern Highland Craft Guild, July and October Craft Fairs, Asheville, NC, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
• Southern Highlands Craft Guild Wood Day event, Demonstrator, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
• Carolina Woodturners Symposium, Statesville, NC, November 2001: Demonstrator
• American Society of Landscape Architects - Commission, 2002. Board Gifts, 12 bowls.
• Carolina Mountain Woodturners, 2002, Demonstrator
• ACC Spotlight 2003 Exhibition at Blue Spiral 1 gallery in Asheville: Juried Exhibitor
• Feature article, American Woodturner, AAW quarterly journal, Winter 2005
• Carolina Woodturners Symposium, Statesville, NC, 2005, Demonstrator
• Featured North Carolina artist, Our State, UNC-TV Public Television show, 2007

Email: Jim@JimMcPhail.com

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