Welcome to the woods
Unique and custom designed woodworks and artworks that reconnects your home to your Halcyon Days.
Welcome to the woods
Unique and custom designed woodworks and artworks that reconnects your home to your Halcyon Days.
Meet Halcyon Woods Creative
My inspiration starts in the woods - where you can smell the soil and feel creatures moving about. Its where trees tell centuries-long stories and time is recorded in infinitely detailed ways permanently stamped in the woodgrain. Sometimes, when in the woods, if you're like me, you can even see yourself more clearly.
This is what I hope to bring back into people's homes: a remembrance of a simpler time spent in the woods and of carefree halcyon days.
I also have a deep appreciation for the stories, folklore and characters that emerge from historic architecture. I see stories inside a cut piece of wood, just like I see stories written on old buildings. This intrigue leads to my playing with how to design the building features and lines with wood, a material that is otherwise complex and challenging to work with.
Sustainable designs utilizing salvaged materials
In my time in the woods and managing nature preserves, I often encounter a tree that's fallen in a storm or cut to protect infrastructure. Every once in a while, the patterns, textures and colors exposed are so phenomenal I take them home to my studio to dry, where I decide what it will turn into.
These locally salvaged trees range from native Manzanita, Blue Oak, Black Oak and Cedar to trees that fall in the city that folks need removed. (This one pictured here is a friend's fallen Pistachio - gorgeous!) I also utilize milled lumber in many of my furniture and shelf pieces and find my favorites to work with are Walnut, Poplar, Eucalytpus and White Oak.
Please check out my Process Page to learn more about the process from start to finish.
Process
Working with the wood in my shop, I once again enjoy the grounding and simplicity of spending the day remembering where each piece came from, focusing on the tiny patterns and shapes and moving every piece through each step in the process: designing, drying, debarking, planing, routing, sanding, sealing, shaping the wood and glass, adding metals or beads and installing hardware. Each piece is unique and tells its own story.