Wood Turner
Tom Goldschmid
Closed to the Public for the 2023 Tour
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Tom Goldschmid STUDIO INFO
“I’ll be taking a leave of absence due to health issues and my studio will be closed this year.”
Unfortunately, Tom’s studio won’t be open to the public for this year’s Putney Craft Tour. Please join us in wishing Tom a successful journey back to full health. We are hopeful that Tom will be back and better than ever for the 2024 Putney Craft Tour.
Address: 316 Thayer Road, Westminster, Vermont 05158
The craft of making wooden bowls allows me to take time and closely observe the life energy of trees.
When considering materials for bowls I try to imagine the stories told of changing seasons, the history of the place where a tree took root, flourished and eventually fell.
Vermont's weather and verdant landscape are revealed in a tree's distinctive color and grain pattern.
The unique characteristics of each piece of wood I place on my lathe helps me determine the shape and size of the bowl I will find there.
As a craftsperson, my hope is to capture the history that lingers in a particular tree's memory, and simply shape and reveal the beauty that exists in nature.
The oaks and the pines and their brethren of the woods, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence.
That we may well wonder what the “story of the trees” would be to us if they had tongues to tell it or we, ears fine enough to understand.
Charles R. Skinner
