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March 3, 2020

2020 ACC American Craft Show- Baltimore

We had a great show in Baltimore this year. The wholesale part was 2 days, followed by 3 days of retail. We enjoyed connecting with many old friends and customers. My booth is below.

Left wall of booth with assorted wooden fish.
Lower part of left booth wall with more wooden fish and carved birds on vintage alphabet blocks.
Left back corner of booth with wall mounted bird sticks and various hand carved birds on vintage blocks, tins and balls. Also large and small metal bugs and rusty metal masks.
Back wall of booth featuring metal clad barracuda and sea bass, bottle cap barracuda, small vintage tin bugs, specimen boxes, and a table top bird stick.
Back right corner of booth with birds on vintage alphabet blocks, birds on vintage balls, birds on vintage tins, birds in hand sculpture, coffee measures made from vintage coffee tins, wood and metal bugs
Right wall of booth featuring metal-clad fish, wooden water bugs, large metal bugs, and magnets. Fish pictured include: Sea bass and baracuda covered with vintage tins, sea bass covered with bottle caps, Coors-Lite mackerel, and a large rusty metal amberjack.

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: birds, bugs, fish, magnets, masks

December 4, 2019

2019 Richmond Craft + Design Show

We exhibited in the Craft + Design show November 22-24 at the beautiful Main Street Station in downtown Richmond, Virginia. What an incredible venue- perfect for a show of high quality work! We thoroughly enjoyed our time there and hope to visit just for fun in the near future. My booth shots are below.

2019 Richmond Craft + Design Booth back wall with hand-carved birds, metal bugs, and metal-clad & bottle cap fish.
2019 Richmond Craft + Design Booth left wall with wooden fish
2019 Richmond Craft + Design Booth left back corner with hand-carved birds, metal bugs, and rusty metal masks
2019 Richmond Craft + Design Booth Right Wall with unique one-of-a-kind metal clad fish
2019 Richmond Craft + Design Booth Right Back Corner with hand-carved birds, metal-clad bugs, wooden bugs and tin coffee measures
2019 Richmond Craft + Design Back Wall with a display of specimen boxes containing hand-crafted metal clad bugs
2019 Richmond Craft + Design large metal beetles hand crafted from vintage tins

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: birds, bugs, fish, Portfolio

December 4, 2019

2019 American Craft Exposition

We had the pleasure of exhibiting again in the American Craft Exposition September 19-22 at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden. We brought our binoculars and found time to do some birding while there. Always an inspiration! Check out the photos of my booth.

2019 ACE booth back wall with metal clad fish, bugs and birds
2019 ACE booth with metal-clad fish, large tin bugs, birds and magnets
2019 ACE booth back right corner with hand carved birds, wooden bugs and tin coffee measures
2019 ACE left wall of booth with wooden fish
2019 ACE booth with birds on branches, metal bugs and rusty metal masks

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: antique, birds, bottle caps, bugs, fish, hand-carved, metal-clad

September 28, 2018

2018 American Craft Exposition

Spent a wonderful week exhibiting in the American Craft Exposition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The show was impressive, as always, and well attended. Check out these photos of our work!

2018 American Craft Exposition booth
hand crafted wooden fish sculptures
Rusty metal clad barracuda and hand carved birds on wall perch
Display of hand carved birds, bugs and snakes displayed with coffee measures and dogs made from vintage tins
Coffee measures hand crafted from vintage coffee tins
Hand made magnets created from a variety of materials such as bottle caps, phonograph records and aerosol can bottoms

Filed Under: Recent Works Tagged With: beetles, birds, bottle caps, bugs, fish, magnets, masks, metal-clad, painted, snakes, tins, vintage

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Each of Paul’s pieces is unique, and the images in the portfolio section of this site may not reflect what is currently in stock. Not to worry! Paul does custom orders. If you see a piece in the gallery that’s not listed as available in the Recent Works section, get in touch with Paul and let him know what you’re interested in. Note that availability and pricing is based on labor and materials on hand.

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2020 ACC American Craft Show- Baltimore

March 3, 2020

We had a great show in Baltimore this year. The wholesale part was 2 days, followed by 3 days of retail. We enjoyed connecting with many old … See Full Post>>>

2019 Richmond Craft + Design Back Wall with a display of specimen boxes containing hand-crafted metal clad bugs

2019 Richmond Craft + Design Show

December 4, 2019

We exhibited in the Craft + Design show November 22-24 at the beautiful Main Street Station in downtown Richmond, Virginia. What an … See Full Post>>>

2019 ACE booth back wall with metal clad fish, bugs and birds

2019 American Craft Exposition

December 4, 2019

We had the pleasure of exhibiting again in the American Craft Exposition September 19-22 at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden. We brought … See Full Post>>>

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