Bowl

David Ellsworth has both channeled and challenged the idea of functional turned wood vessels. At one point, Ellsworth began creating his own bent turning tools to achieve his conceptual and aesthetic goals. Embracing a broader 1980s wood turning trend toward working with burl, or outgrowths on trees that have irregular grain patterns, Ellsworth has played with the variety and character these types of formations offer, as seen in this clara walnut bowl.