About

BIO

Thank you for stopping and looking at my website.   I am Vincent Welch.  I grew up in San Jose California better known now as Silicon Valley.  San Jose is where I first started my wood working journey while in the 7th grade way back in 1977.  I enjoyed the experience so much I continued enrolling in woodshop class through high school and during my senior year was honored to be asked to be the teacher’s shop aid assisting all students with their projects.  Later while completing my Bachelors Degree in 1994 I was able to enroll in woodshop offered at the university.  In 2010 completed my Master Degree in Managing Information Technology. Since 2001 my woodworking efforts have primarily focused on woodturning. Since that time I have had the pleasure to study with many great woodturning artists! People such as John Jordon, Jimmy Clewes, and the late Woodturning Master Ray Key to name a few. I consider myself very fortunate! Turning boxes, bowls and wine glasses are a passion for me. Please contact me if you have any questions or if I can help you.

Artist Statement

Wood as a medium provides me a great sense and appreciation for the outdoors, different weather and climates and the 4 seasons.  Acquiring the wood, cutting it to size and turning the wood leaves me with a since of satisfaction like nothing else.  Each species of wood have a different feel when working the piece.  Each piece of wood cuts different, smells different, sands and finishes different.  Each piece has its own unique characteristics!  Working with wood allows me to use my senses such as vision, hearing, smell, touch and even taste at times. While at the lathe, I am very much in the moment focused on the wood piece often spinning thousands of revolutions per minute just inches in front of me.  The experience is often cathartic and meditative allowing me relax while issues of my world drift away even for a just a little while.  Remembering back to my 7th grade first experience with wood and thinking… “this is what I want to do when I grow older… stay active and create wood art in a shop environment!”  I was 11 years old at the time!  Woodturning is in my DNA… it is just part of who I am… a wood artist!