Artistic, Expressive, Useful and Durable best describe the pieces that are created at The CT Board of Chefs. Marc and Mary are a husband and wife team with a passion for fine woodworking, fine food and beautiful photography. Through combined artistic skill and vision, they have been creating unique, artisan, heirloom quality kitchen woodenware since […]
Darrell’s interest in carving started when his brother in law decided to carve decoys to hunt over. He admired his carvings and expressed a desire to give it a try. He took Darrell under his wing and he has been carving ever since. Darrell decided to enter carving competitions and have won numerous awards and […]
Dave Farrington is 85 years young. He lived in Bridgeport CT until 1960. When Dave married, they move to Fairfield. Farrington spent 4 years in the Air Force and then went to work for Avco Lycoming Textron Allied Signal as a mechanical technician. At the age of 42 he met a carver wo agreed to […]
See Glenn’s work available for purchase online “No power tools!” That’s what Glenn Paskiewicz said to himself as he started his journey. Paskiewicz truly enjoys making things with his hands. Carving spoons is a great way for him to express this because he makes things for people to use. With this in mind, Glenn has […]
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Carol Szymanski is an avid woodworker and a woodturner with decades of experience experimenting with wood, her preferred craft medium. An introductory bowl turning class at Norwalk woodcraft hooked her and she immediately bought her first of two wood lathes. A multi month woodturning class at Brookfield craft center taught her what the lathe can […]
Susan Hackett self-identifies as a maker. She works in traditional craft media, often glass, but also metal, wood, paper and clay as well as creating images using photography and printmaking. Susan earned a BFA at MassArt in Boston, and an MFA from the Nomad9 program at Hartford Art School Using modest materials, she seeks to […]
A carver/artist for over 30 years. He studied his paint detailing under Keith Meuller, who is a World Champion Artist/Carver. Most of his work is done using basswood which is a local wood exceptional straight grain. Each piece is hand carved using a very small carving knife and then to rotary tools, some of the […]
Sergio moved from Rome, the Eternal City to a small town in CT after an early retirement from an academic life in Surgical Pathology. Sergio is a self-thought photographer. He often indulges in still life compositions where he can play with light and colors to give depth and vibrancy to his creations. His photos have […]
See Glen’s work available for purchase online Glen has been carving decorative wildfowl for over 30 years. He spends between 150 and 250 hours carving and painting each bird with intricate detail to achieve life-like accuracy. As visual reference for his work, Glen uses photographs of each species in its natural habitat as well as […]
Crazy Eyes, driftwood 4in x 12in x 1.5in See Andy’s work available for purchase online Andy attended Parson School of Design as a young man and has spent many years since doing art as a hobby. He enjoys working with various mediums (collage, wood sculpture, assemblage, and paint). He moved from Chester to the Grove […]
