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worked as a graphics designer for more than
30 years in Chicago and Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. In 1994, Jim and his wife,
Pat, moved to the Carolina Mountains to
pursue his life-long desire to work as a
professional craft artist. In the early 1990s,
Jim had experimented with a variation on the
wood-art style often called segmented or
laminated turning. He decide to expand on
the concept as he moved from hobbyist to
professional. He dubbed the technique
“layered bowls”. Over the ensuing years, he
has developed many variations on his
layered bowl concept. Jim also decided to
limit the size of his bowls to less than five
inches in diameter to make his them
available to a wider audience. He has shown
his work in New York, Los Angeles and
Chicago, as well as many galleries
throughout the Southern Appalachian range.
In 2000, Jim was juried into the prestigious
Southern Highland Craft Guild, America’s
second oldest craft guild. In 2004, three of
Jim’s bowls were juried into Lark Books'
collection, 500 Wood Bowls. In 2005, Jim
was invited to demonstrate at the Utah
Woodturning Symposium, America’s oldest
symposium. Later the same year, he was
asked to write the cover article for the winter
edition of the journal of the American
Association of Woodturners, American
Woodturner. In 2007, Jim and his work were
featured on the popular UNC-TV / PBS
series, Our State. In 2010, Jim’s work will
be part of North Carolina State University's
Gregg Museum’s exhibition, “With Lathe
and Chisel: North Carolina Wood Turners
and Carvers”.