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ture is hand planed. “The technique is very important. The wood has a kind of a smooth, sensuous ripple to it, unlike most commercial ' furniture, which is sanded flat. I buy from sawmills that know Fm interested in unique pieces of wood,” he explains. “As a result, the raw materials are more expensive, but it shows. It makes each piece much more unique.”
Kramer begins each piece with a sense of line and shape, but says that some elements are best executed visually while the piece is actually being made. Once a piece is completed, it is painted and stained, sealed with shellac, varnished, wet sanded and waxed. Kramer does artwork and carving last. His motifs, which include roosters, swans, iris and delicate floral designs, come to him more through experience than art or furniture history. “I carry a camera with me. HI stop and photograph something that talks to me, that I like.”
“I know that the furniture I have made is going to be around a lot longer than you or I, and will touch more people and say more of what’s meaningful than Fd ever think to say.”
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC) invites you to join us at the library on May 10 to learn more about Peter Kramer and his artistry with wood.
Camp Bittersweet in Sperryville; Wednesday, May 15 at the Chester Gap Fire Hall; and Tuesday, May 21 at the home of Helen and Emerson Williams in Castleton. A great event is in the works for Amissville in July.
If you would like to meet Ben Jones in this kind of setting or if you would like to host a “friend-raiser,” call Linda Dietel in Flint Hill at 675-3826.
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