Dave Landers, DLW

Dave Landers

Estes Park, CO

Dave is an Estes Park-based woodturner who creates wonderful bowls, vases and goblets.  He uses many unique wood from around the world in his work.  He often starts with up-cycled materials: trees removed from someone's yard, wood intercepted on its way to the dump, pieces rescued from the firewood pile, or native trees removed for conservation efforts or fire protection.  

"When using found wood as a medium, I rarely fully design a thing before I start making it.  I start with an idea, but when I cut into the wood and see what lies inside that idea might be modified.  It is important to me that I work with what Mother Nature has provided.  Sometime I find beautiful figures, other times there are defects that need to be avoided (or even highlighted).  Those discoveries often mean completely changing the form I thought I was creating.  I enjoy responding to and working with nature in this way."