Tonight on Blank Canvas, guest host, Malika Pryor-Martin, filling in for Amanda Coulson, sits down with wood-turner Robin Hardy. They spend the first two segments discussing his process as a professional artisan for nearly 20 years after retiring from a 30-plus career in accounting and insurance.
By Keisha Oliver. Last summer, I had the pleasure of turning my first bowl from Madeira wood with established woodturner and furniture-maker, Robin B. Hardy. With no formal training, he has developed a niche for one-of-a-kind pieces hand-crafted from a variety of wood grown in The Bahamas. Operating out of his basement workshop for the past seventeen years, Hardy’s design style is simple, functional and elegant, allowing the wood to express its own qualities and natural imperfections. His practice as a woodworker is inspired by curiosity and the challenge each piece of wood presents. He has coined his creative repertoire as “discovered art in salvaged wood.”