John Jordan

John Jordan is a seminal artist in this specialist field of International turned wood. To create his exquisite and unique vessel forms, he uses only fresh, green logs that are initially turned on the lathe. Each work is then hand carved and textured, using a variety of different hand and powered tools. The delicately carved surfaces can take weeks to complete with little room for error during the carving process. Many of the woods that he uses are from the dump, or construction sites etc. Jordan finds a great satisfaction in creating elegant objects from material that were destined to be buried or burned.

The artists comments that ‘The pieces I make are simple but finely detailed vessels. By manipulating the colour and patterns in the wood I compliment the form. The texture and carving create visual and tactile contrasts which are important parts of the process and result'.

John Jordan lives and works in Tennessee, U.S.A. He has featured in nearly every major Wood Turning exhibition over the past twenty years. His work has received numerous awards and is in the permanent collections of a number of major public museums, including The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

John Jordan's e-catalogue of available works including prices