"Keith Plumley moved to Tofino in Clayoquot Sound in 1990 from Ontario where he had already been painting, woodcarving and wood turning for 15 years. He arrived with his antique late originally used at a sawmill in the 1930’s.

Keith usually chose burls to work with. Burls are knotty growths that grow on the sides of trees. They are not used in the lumber industry so they are cut off the trees were they are cut down and left behind, usually in very inaccessible areas. Keith found burls eight feet across from trees that must have been several hundred tears old. Burls often contain swirling grains, sometimes ‘birds-eye’ markings and often ‘light rays’, a stretch mark that catches the light in a shifting, iridescent way."

-Tofino Arts Council

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