Mark Gardner was introduced to woodworking by his father and has been working with wood since he was a teenager.  He has studied with great woodturners such as John Jordan and Stoney Lamar. Mark has demonstrated and taught woodturning workshops throughout North America and has had several articles published in Fine Woodworking magazine and his work has been featured in Woodwork Magazine and the book New Masters of Woodturning among others. He has a number of works in public collections, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Yale Art Gallery, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.  Mark lives in Saluda, NC, a small mountain town outside of Asheville.  In his workshop, he creates a line of functional bowls as well as one-of-a-kind decorative works from green wood that he sells through galleries and at art fairs around the country.