The Ray Key Woodturners Collaboration Auction - AWGB

Al Stirt (USA) Burr ash bowl 5x7cm. Signed Ray Key’s bowls and boxes have long been instantly recognizable. Always refined and elegant, they call ...

Alan Lacer (USA) Spalted beech marbled bowl 7x12cm. Signed I knew Ray from conferences and club activities in the US.  He was a real inspiration f...

Ambrose O'Halloran (Ireland) Ash platter 3x33cm. Not signed. I first met Ray in 1995. I was not long turning and he was a legend then. He gracious...

Andi Wolfe (USA) Canary wood bowl 5x10cm. Signed Wood turning has a large number of well-known artists throughout the world. Some are legendary, a...

Andrew Hall (UK) Burr elm blues bowl guitar with pickup, tuner, plectrum, slideand case 80x26cm. Signed My first meeting with Ray was about 12 yea...

Andrew Potocnik (Australia) Thuya burr lidded form 12x15cm. Signed I didn’t have the fortune of meeting and gaining a personal insight into Ray an...

Andy Coates (UK) oak vessel 18x11cm. Signed I came to know Ray from my time serving on the committee of the AWGB, and over eleven years came to ho...

Angus Clyne (UK) ash hollow form 8x18cm. Signed Even though I've been turning professionally for over twenty years and have always been aware of R...

Art Liestman & Larry Stevenson (Canada) ash hollow form 10x10cm. Signed  My first puzzle illusion vessel was chosen for critique (by Ray Key and J...

Benoit Averly (France) ash open form 10x18cm. Signed I met Ray in 2005 during my first time demonstrating in the US at the Utah Symposium and we h...

Betty Scarpino (USA) Spalted beech carved egg on plinth 13x10cm. Signed It seemed that Ray Key was a bigger-than-life woodturner, so I was quite e...

Bob Chapman (UK) canarywood coloured hollow form 8x9cm. Signed In the years I knew Ray I don’t ever remember seeing him texture or colour anything...

Bonnie Klein (USA) ash threaded box 7x6cm. Signed Ray and I have known each other since the mid 1980’s.  I was fortunate to be his teaching assist...

Carlyn Lindsay (UK) Ash box with laminted finial and foot 11x7cm. Signed Small is beautiful! I love the shape, proportion and the size of Ray's bl...

Carol Hall & Mike Kehs (USA) Ash coloured and decorated hollow form 18x11cm. Signed A lucky girl (Carol) gets to collaborate with Michael Kehs, bu...

Christian Burchard (USA) rippled ash bowl with pyrography detail 6x15cm/ Signed I have admired Ray’s work for years, met him a few times at differ...

Cindy Drozda (USA) Coloured rippled ash hollow form 28x8cm. Signed I first “met” Ray through his VHS videos, in the mid-90s. I was learning to mak...

Colwin Way (UK) burr elm hollow form 19x13cm. Signed My earliest recollection of Ray was way back in the mid 80’s when I was an apprentice turner ...

Curt Theobald (USA) segmented ash vessel 14x9cm. Signed Ray Key was a giant of a man and a giant in the field of woodturning in the way he freely ...

Cynthia Carden-Gibson & Dale Larson (USA) olive bowl with pyrography and coloured 8x9cm. Signed Dale’s words… I am very proud to have known Ray Ke...

Dan Comisky & Joe Seltzer (USA) bocote lidded bowl 9x8cm. Signed   Joe isn’t certain when he first met Ray Key, but about 15 years ago, Ray was as...

Dave Appleby (UK) yew natural edge bowl 17x32cm. Signed   My recollections of Ray start from 2003 when I first started going to the AWGB Internati...

Dave Regester (UK) Zircote bowl 5x9cm. Signed    Ray and I started our woodturning careers at about the same time and I think he probably heard of...

David Ellsworth (USA) walnut box with shavings inside 5x10cm. Signed  “When the day is done my ultimate goal is to have a nice pile of shavings” –...

David Springett (UK) coloured ash bowl with steel balls / screws 9x12cm. Signed   My most vivid memory of Ray Key is when, at Shannon Airport afte...

David Woodward (UK) burr oak bowl 13x45cm. Signed   I first came across the work of Ray at the Collector’s gallery in Ledbury. This was about the ...

Dennis Hales (UK) ash bowl with turned cherries 6x16cm. Signed   In completing this work I remember  my  influences from  Ray at the AWG B seminar...

Derek Weidman & Doug Weidman (USA) Laburnum vessel with mutli-axis turned racoon 17x10cm. Signed   This was such a special project, and I imagine ...

Dick Sing (USA) cocobolo hollow form 11x9cm. Signed   I first met Ray in the late 80’s or early 90’s, as I was attending the Utah Woodturning Symp...

Don White (UK) burr oak bowl 12x30cm. Signed   Ray's classic form was evident on the Burr-Oak Bowl that I received, and was well on the way to com...

Eleanor Lakelin (UK) burr oak hollow form 23x19cm. Signed   When I started to learn to turn wood, three people were particularly influential– Dave...

Eli Avisera (Israel) laminated sycamore box 9x7cm. Not signed The box is designed in Ray's design. And the star segment is made of woods like a pu...

Emmet Kane (Ireland) brown oak bowl with ebonised rim and gilded interior 5x9cm. Signed   Rays Key was an extraordinary gifted Woodturner who was ...

Gary Rance (UK) burr oak bowl 6x11cm. Signed   On receiving the small bowl, I decided to keep it as close to Ray’s original design.  I put myself ...

Glenn Lucas (Ireland) ash bowl 9x35cm. Signed   My first encounter with the name Ray Key was in 1990. Browsing through the woodworking section in ...

Graeme Priddle (USA) ash vessel with decorated exterior and ebonised intierior 15x14cm. Signed   Sadly I never got to know Ray, we demonstrated at...

Guilio Marcolongo (Australia) african blackwood natural edge bowl 10x14cm. Signed   I first came across Ray Keys at the Utah Symposium . I had jus...

Hans Weissflog (Germany) ebony lattice bowl 10x14cm. Signed   Ray Key was the first person who ever invited me to do a demo. He started it all. We...

Hayley Smith (USA) rippled ash bowl with decorated rim 3x14cm. Signed   I knew Ray in my formative years woodturning, before moving to the States....

Jacques Vesery (USA) lidded hollow form carved and coloured 17x13cm. Signed   This tribute collaboration is based on my fondest memories of Ray’s ...

Jason Breach (UK) spalted beech box 8x7cm. Signed I first met Ray when I was 14 in 1986. He always attended and demonstrated at the Woodworker sho...

Jay Heryet (UK) ash lidded form 20x11cm. Signed   “Where’s Ray?” I heard someone say. “He’s over there talking to someone”. Ah, I thought, that’s ...

Jean-Francois Escoulen (France) ash lidded form 17x8cm. Not signed I met Ray for the first time in 1996 at the AAW symposium in Greensboro. I was ...

Joe Laird (Ireland) ash platter 9x50cm. Signed   Many years ago (more than I care to remember) I attended a woodturning Seminar as an amateur and ...

Joey Richardson (UK) Yew / maple pierced and decorated box 15x17cm. Signed      ‘Avem’ is a tribute to Ray and the natural world. This unique piec...

Johannes Michelsen (USA) spalted beech bowl 8x27cm. Signed   I met Ray in 1988 at a symposium in Philadelphia it was a very brief moment of contac...

John Boyne-Aitken (UK) decorated ash vessel 7x12cm. Signed   The Ray Key collaboration It must be over 30 years ago since I first saw Ray demonstr...

John Jordan (USA) coloured rippled ash hollow form 12x9cm. Signed   My piece for the exhibition is a little ash hollow vessel. When I chose it, I ...

John Wessels (South Africa) striped ebony and pewter nest of three bowls 5x15, 3x13 and 2x8cm. Signed   I first met Ray at a AWGB Symposium in 200...

Joss Naigeon (France) pierced and decorated hollow form 9x9cm. Signed I first met Ray Key in 2003 at the International french Symposium in Puy St ...

Jules Tatersall (UK) brown oak bowl 8x10cm. Signed   Ray Keys influence on the world of woodturning has been immense and he was a kind, generous m...

Keith Gotschall (USA) thuya burr bowl 8x15cm. Signed   I met Ray in England but had much more interaction with him during several symposia in Utah...

Keith Tompkins (USA) coloured ash hollow form withfinial 25x9cm. Signed   I first started woodturning before I was aware of groups such as the AAW...

Kelly Dunn (USA) african blackwood natural edge bowl 8x16cm. Signed   When I got the piece I knew from a large number of form conversations with R...

Kevin Hutson (UK) burr elm hollow form 30x26cm. Signed   The piece I have chosen and turned for Ray’s collaboration is burr elm. I wanted to show ...

Kip Christensen (USA) mountain mahogany natural edge bowl 6x13cm. Signed   Prior to my receiving the bowl blank, Ray had turned and rough-sanded t...

Kirk Deheer (USA) Cocobolo, macassar ebony, Tasmanian pink tiger myrtle, birdseye african blackwood and snakewood threaded nesting boxes 8x9 - 2x1...

Kurt Hertzog (USA) burr cherry bowl 7x29cm. Signed   My recollections of Ray go back to my beginnings in turning. I met Ray at one of my earliest ...

Les Thorne (UK) walnut bowl 6x14cm. Signed   Ray Key   What always struck me about Ray was the fact that he remembered everything and everyone in ...

Liam O'Neill (Ireland) spalted beech platter 7x49cm. Signed   Ray Key tribute piece. Liam O’Neill. Title: Wormy Spalted Beech Platter.     I first...