Woodworker: Tania Radda

This bowl highlights Radda’s typical muse, plants. In this case, her inspiration was the rice plant. Although she had never seen one up close, “I wanted to connect the bowl with the plant,” Radda told the American Woodturner. She created the bowl as part of an American Association of Woodturners project in which she was given a rough-turned bowl and asked to finish it for an exhibit, Japanese Bowls: A Western Perspective. While Radda often gives her work vibrant colors, this design uses a neutral palette. The finish is lacquer.

Photo: Ken Manicki