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Biography
I was born in 1947 in
Joliet, IL. After finishing high school I enlisted in the U.S. Marine
Corps in 1965. I ended my military service at Marine Corps Air
Station Yuma, AZ in 1974 and decided to make my home in the desert
southwest. I retired from the City of Yuma, AZ as
a Senior Engineering Technician with 24+ years of experience and now I
have more time to cut wood!
I have been married to my wife
Kathy for over 32 years (seems longer!). We have one daughter who has
blessed us with three grandchildren. Hobbies include cutting wood,
sawing wood, counting wood, looking at wood and wood in general.
Artist's Statement
"I have always been fascinated
with creating things out of wood. When I was old enough to be trusted
with a hammer and a handsaw (there is still some debate in my family
on when this actually happened) I was always making something out of
wood I found laying around the garage. Then came model ships and
airplanes. Even after my military service the fascination with
creating something out of wood was still there.
In the spring of 1995 I was
introduced to the wood lathe and it's been a love affair ever since.
I get immense satisfaction when I take a piece of
wood that was destined to become fuel in someone's fireplace and
create something beautiful and useful out of it. Woodturning provides
me with the opportunity to work with one of Nature's most beautiful
and bountiful resource.
Now I spend the majority of my time looking for and processing
exceptional wood for my customers. It's almost as challenging as
turning, just as messy, and almost as gratifying. Good wood is hard
to find and I take as much satisfaction from someone telling me that I
turned a beautiful bowl as someone telling me that I supplied them
with the most beautiful pen blanks they have ever turned."
10" tall end-grained turned spalted cottonwood
with Gabon ebony hollow form.
Created by Bill Baumbeck
Exhibitions
Rings of Time: Wooden Visions For The Millennium (1999)
West Valley Art Museum; Surprise, AZ
18th Annual Design In wood Exhibition (1999)
Del Mar
Fair; Del Mar, CA
Rings of Time (2000)
Two Year
Traveling Exhibition Program , Arizona Commission of the Arts
19th Annual Design in Wood Exhibition (2000)
Del Mar Fair, Del Mar, CA
Honorable Mention / Stone Embellishment
2001 Yuma County Fair; Yuma, AZ
Sweepstakes - Purple Ribbon
20th Annual Design In Wood Exhibition
(2001)
Del Mar Fair, Del Mar, CA
Honorable Mention / Stone Embellishment
12" Figured maple with turquoise stone inlay
Created by Bill Baumbeck
10" Curly maple bowl with a foot made of ziricote with Sleeping
Beauty turquoise stone inlayed into the rim
Created by Bill Baumbeck
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