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GALLERY

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Pecan

Pecan

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Sweet Gum

Sweet Gum

Pecan

Pecan

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Eastern Red Cedar

Eastern Red Cedar

Pecan

Pecan

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Red Maple

Red Maple

Sweet Gum

Sweet Gum

Rough Turned Ashleaf Maple

Rough Turned Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Pecan

Pecan

Spalted Pecan

Spalted Pecan

Quasimodo

Quasimodo

Spalting Garden

Spalting Garden

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Red Maple

Red Maple

Silver maple

Silver maple

Red Maple

Red Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Pecan

Pecan

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Walnut

Walnut

Wild Cherry Burl

Wild Cherry Burl

Pecan

Pecan

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Walnut

Walnut

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Pecan

Pecan

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Pecan

Pecan

Pecan

Pecan

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Walnut

Walnut

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Walnut

Walnut

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Black Willow

Black Willow

River Birch

River Birch

Weeping Willow

Weeping Willow

Wild Cherry Burl

Wild Cherry Burl

Pecan

Pecan

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Wild Cherry Burls

Wild Cherry Burls

Red Maple

Red Maple

River BIrch

River BIrch

Pecan

Pecan

Siver Maple

Siver Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Ashleaf Maple

Walnut

Walnut

Loblolly Pine

Loblolly Pine

Wild Cherry

Wild Cherry

Red Bud

Red Bud

Pecan

Pecan

Osage Orange

Osage Orange

Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Walnut

Walnut

Tulip Poplar

Tulip Poplar

Master woodturner Bill Benzur is an Atlanta native. All of his works are created from native Southern species. Under his creative hands, fallen or downed trees that would otherwise find their way into a chipper or landfill become beautiful pieces of fine art. "Every time I put a piece of wood on the lathe, it’s like opening a present on Christmas morning. ‘What’s inside?’, I ask myself. As I work the wood more and more, hidden features and sometimes even the history of the tree itself are revealed. For example, while turning a piece of ancient cypress from Burke County, Georgia, I encountered an old bullet lodged in the wood." 

Bill creates simple, organic shapes, usually from wood that has begun to decay and spalt. Spalting is a condition which results from infections of the wood due to various forms of fungi. Blue-black lines occur in wood when competing colonies of fungi encounter each other and put up barriers to separate their territories. Spalting creates dynamic and exciting color contrasts in an otherwise ordinary piece of wood. 

Harvested logs are placed in his backyard spalting garden and are allowed to season for months to enhance the inherent color and figuring in the wood. While some of his inventory of logs comes from contractors clearing building sites, storms and high winds provide a consistent supply of wood for turning. If you happen to lose a tree on your property, consider having Bill create a turned wood form or bowl from an undamaged log. 

A graduate of The Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bill has worked in the pulp & paper industry, manufacturing and construction materials industry for the past 37 years.


Bill Benzur’s works are available at Mountain Mist Gallery, Cashiers, North Carolina; New Morning Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina; The Spor tsman's Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina; The Signature Art Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, Chasen Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Chasen Gallery, Sarasota, Florida;  Paderewski Fine Art, Beaver Creek, Colorado; Denis Bloch Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA

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