A Japanese influenced floor lamp. Gracefully curved slender legs of figured big-leaf maple support a traditional wood and paper lantern with a live-edge handle. The maple-leaf collage adds a Canadian touch! Sold at the People for a Healthy Community fund-raiser in May.

Not all my pieces leave the house. I recently completed this tansu cabinet in Douglas fir and big-leaf maple and it's staying here.

A collaboration with Lou Gagne and Rob Maynard for the Gabriola Arts Council fund-raising auction in January 2017. The theme was "A China Affair - Tempest in a Teapot", so we made a playful tea-cabinet/toy storage unit that pays homage to the nursery rhyme – I’m a Little Teapot – and to the classic Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons. Purchased by a proud grandmother, it is now making a child in Victoria very happy.

This was an interesting and fun collaborative project. The clients had a beloved cat, who in her old age became deaf and began to yowl, earning her the nickname "Madame Butterfly". When Madame sadly passed away, an artist friend of the clients hand-cut a beautiful stencil of "Madame Butterfly" with kimono and parasol in memory. Looking for a way to display the stencil to best effect, the clients asked me to incorporate the stencil into a Japanese style lamp. I was a bit nervous about experimenting with the original artwork, but fortunately technology came to our rescue. The original was scanned and we had laser cut copies of the stencil made. These stencils were glued successfully to Japanese shoji paper and the paper was glued to the lamp frame and misted with water to tighten it.

West coast table lamp. Purchased by private collectors, Gabriola This lamp reaches across the Pacific for the traditional structure of a Japanese paper lantern, but the heavier architectural elements of the red-cedar legs and top reflect BC’s coast. The cedar is textured in a traditional Northwest Coast style with a bent-knife. Looking at the lamp, I think of the big old cedars still growing on this coast. So in honor of a much-loved Gabriola tree, I named this lamp “Elder Cedar”.