Paintbrush & Chisel
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Pinceau & Ciseau

Welcome to our art and woodturning studio in
Amelie-les-Bains, France
Bienvenue dans notre atelier d'art et de tournage sur bois
a Amelie-les-Bains, France

ABOUT
Meg is a realistic artist who works in pencil and watercolor. Her favorite subjects are people, animals and landscapes.
Meg est une artiste réaliste qui travaille au crayon et à l'aquarelle. Ses sujets de prédilection sont les gens, les animaux et les paysages.

John turns bowls, vessels and sculpture in both air-dried and kiln-dried hardwoods.
John transforme des bols, des récipients et des sculptures en bois durs séchés à l'air et au four.

John writes for woodworking magazines and is the author of fourteen books. 
John écrit pour des magazines de menuiserie et est l'auteur de quatorze livres.

Woodturning

Fine Art

  • Meg

  • Eyes still young

    Pencil

  • Kenzie

    Pencil

  • Girls at Orman

    Watercolor

  • Soybean Field, lake County

    Watercolor

  • Leaf it alone

    Watercolor

  • Spearfish Creek

    Watercolor

  • Cruisin'

    Pencil

  • Native Girl

    Pencil

  • Bareback Riding

    Colored Pencil

  • Lilacs in a Jar

    Watercolor

  • Mark Twain

    Pencil

  • Violin & Case

    Pencil

  • Ice Skates

    Pencil

  • Clouds over the Missouri

    Oil

  • Inspired by Palalda

    Watercolor

  • Fred

    Pencil

Furniture Etc

  • Knitting Cabinet

    White ash and walnut

  • Arts & Crafts Coffee Table

    Quartersawn white oak and black walnut

  • Arts & Crafts Desk

    Quartersawn white oak and black walnut

  • Arts & Crafts Wine Bar

    Quartersawn white oak and black walnut

  • Walnut Crotch Slab CoffeeTable

    Black walnut, ebony, brass Shown in customer's home

  • Walnut Crotch Coffee Table

    Inset for artwork by customer

  • Wardrobe for American Woodworker magazine

    Walnut, elm, brass

  • Two Maple Benches

    Live edge soft maple slabs

  • The Cowboy Table

    Blue pine (beetle killed). The top is removable.

  • Constellations

    Maple and walnut with turquoise inlay

  • Hammock Stand

    Laminated redwood. Approximately 5 meters long.

  • Harris lebus Desk

    Quartersawn white oak. Replica of a 1920s British piece.

  • Irish Parlour Clock

    Mahogany. Modeled after one discovered in Dublin.

  • Jewelry Chest/Desk

    Walnut. For a professional jewelry maker.

  • Writing Desk

    Walnut live edge, ash, hickory

  • Live Edge Maple Dining Table

    Soft and hard maple, air dried and kiln dried. Arrowhead inset in top.

  • Magazine projects

    Various pieces designed and built for American craft publications.

  • Work in progress 1

    Sideboard being built by one of John's students.

  • Work in progress 2

    Dining table being built by one of John's students.

  • Black Hills Tool Cabinet

    Cherry. Designed and built for American Woodworker magazine. Used by John in his woodshop.

  • Live edge wine rack

    Walnut, pine

  • Woodcraft Ad

    Magazine ad featuring Scott Phillips, David Ellsworth and John

  • Tool Trolly

    Walnut and oak tool caddy designed and built for Woodcraft magazine. Used in John's woodshop.

  • Black Hills Library

    Done in a traditional style in native softwoods.

  • Floating Deck

    Built for a residence in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

  • Magazine covers

  • Wine Bottle Holders

    'Magic' stands in various shapes and species that hold a bottle in an eye-catching way.

  • Router Table

    John designed and built this for American Woodworker. It has a swivel fence and a hinged lid for easy access to the tool.

  • Router Table

    Another view

  • Small Projects

    Mostly for magazines

  • Quartersawn Sycamore Kitchen

    The countertop is granite and ceramic tile and the crown molding is walnut.

  • Vanities

    Built for a hotel that was remodeling all of its bathrooms.

  • Workbench

    John designed and built his workbench as a project for Today's Woodworker magazine.

  • Keepsake Box

    Lidded mahogany and maple box built to store ancient artifact. Lighted within.

  • Shop Assistant

    Getting into her work...

  • Hatbox

    Walnut, glass, brass

  • Black Hills Silhouette Cabinet

    Walnut, maple, ebony

  • Butterflies and Chisels

    Butterfly insets are used to restrain cracks.

Books by John

  • Woodworker's Guide to Sharpening

    Fox Chapel Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • How to Choose and Use Bench Planes & Scrapers

    Linden Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • Turning Wood with Carbide Tools

    Linden Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • The Building Buddy

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • The Gout Book

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • Harvest Your Own Lumber

    Linden Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • Woodworking Jokes

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • The Cowboy Story - A History in Photographs

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • A Photographic History of Colorado

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • The Black Hills - A History in Photographs

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • A Traveler's Guide to the Black Hills

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • A Hundred Attractions You Shouldn't Miss in Ireland

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • WAVES - A Collection of Short Stories

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

  • Murder on the Missouri

    Pronghorn Publishing

    Amazon USA

Writing & Teaching

Woodshop News

Woodshop News

John has been a regular contributor to Woodshop News magazine for about thirty years and has written extensively on subjects related to custom woodworking, materials, machinery, running a woodshop, and technology issues in this field including software, CNCs and robotics.

Other Writing

Other Writing

John was awarded a Fellowship in fiction writing by the Arts Council in Wyoming in 2006. He has written for, among others, The New Richmond News, The Irish Farmer's Journal (Ireland), Brides & Your New Home, Today's Woodworker (assistant editor), American How-To, Fine Woodworking, American Woodworker, Popular Woodworking, The Woodworker/Good Woodworking (UK), Woodworker's Journal (editor), and American Woodturner. For the Complete Book of Woodworking (Landauer, 2001), he provided the text and images for the section "Introduction To Wood". He also contributed to the Collins Complete Woodworker, which was published under the imprint of the Smithsonian Institution.

WoodEzine

WoodEzine

From 2003 until 2022, John was the publisher of Woodezine, a daily blog about new tools, materials and machinery that reached up to 160,000 readers annually.

Teaching

Teaching

From 2007 until 2013, John taught furniture design, woodturning, and cabinetmaking at the Black Hills School of Woodworking in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.

A scene from class...

A scene from class...

Contact

  • 11 Rue des Thermes, Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, France.
  • Nous tenons à remercier la mairie et la communauté pour leur soutien.

Our studio in Amelie-les-Bains showcases fine art and drawing by Dr. Meg English, and woodturning by her husband, John. Notre studio à Amélie-les-Bains présente les beaux-arts et le dessin du Dr Meg English, et le tournage sur bois de son mari, John.