JON PAINE

‘I am a professional Chartered Engineer, but have always had a passion for working with wood. I was introduced to woodturning in the mid 1990s by my father who was recovering from illness and had decided to try his hand at the craft as a form of therapy. Through the early, somewhat experimental, days helping my father I realised that woodturning offered a unique way to express myself outside of the relatively straight lines generally associated with conventional cabinetwork. I regularly enter pieces into the national woodturning shows and have been commended on my work with some pieces winning prizes.’