Tom Young Shower Tree Bowl 2″H x 8″D

Description

Tom Young Shower Tree Bowl 2″H x 8″D

About the Artist

Tom Young is a member of The American Association of Woodturners and a charter member of the Honolulu Woodturners Club.  He is self-taught, beginning in 1990 to turn bowls from local Hawaiian woods and selected other species.

Tom’s bowls are typically about 1/8 inch thick.  The larger the diameter of the bowl, the thicker the walls.  The bowls are sanded with 1000 grit sandpaper, and finished with multiple coats of a Danish type oil.  After that the pieces are polished using Tripoli and White Diamond, and then finally coated with carnauba wax and buffed.

Artist Statement

“I consider my pieces artistic woodturnings as opposed to utilitarian.  They are thin, consistent throughout, and finely finished. The shape flows and does not have any abrupt changes in the curve. While some of the pieces may also be useful, they are made as a visual and tactile art form.  They are things to admire on a shelf, on the table, or in a collection. They are things to be picked up and caressed.”

Shower Tree

Shower Trees (Cassia sp.) are a group of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, that are native to India and southeast Asia. Hawaii’s most common shower trees are the rainbow shower tree (Cassia x nealiae). They are sterile hybrids of the next two most common cassia species; pink shower tree (Cassia javanica), and yellow shower tree (Cassia fistula). Cassia x nealiae is named after well known Hawaii botanist Marie C. Neal. In 1965 The Wilhelmina Tenney cultivar of the rainbow shower tree was made the official City and County flower of Honolulu.

The wood is very durable. It has been used in construction at the famous site of the Buddha’s footprint, Ehela Kanuwa on Adam’s Peak, as well as to carve King Parakramabahu’s throne, and Bahirawa Kalliya (each out of a single block of cassia wood).

Weight and measurement in the ‘additional information’ tab includes packing for shipping.

Tom Young Shower Tree Bowl 2″H x 8″D