Marc ri court biography of georgetown

PERMANENT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Musée des Pays de L'Ain (French museum of woodturning)
Wood Turning Center, Lewes, Sussex, England


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Arts et Decoration
Elle Décor
Ateliers d'Art
Woodturning Magazine, The Guild of Master Craftsmen, Lewes, East Sussex, England
Bois de Rêve, Bois Travaillés , Musée des Pays de L'Ain, France
American Woodturner


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marc Ricourt trained for 3 years in Dijon Fine Arts school and is a self-taught apprenticeship of woodturning.

In 2000, he participated in a Puy Saint Martin meeting with John Jordan and Mark Sfirri and in 2001, the ITE Wood Turning Center of Philadelphia.

For a few years now, I've based my work around a simple but very essential object, as it was the first tool created and used by mankind: the vessel.

Useful, yet mysterious, the closed vessel symbolically holds all mysteries and secrets of the human soul. I strive to find perfect harmony between wood, shape, texture and color. The u