Re­cy­cling wood in­to art has be­come a way of life for wood­turn­er Evan Samuel.

On May 2 and 3, his pieces will be on dis­play at Samuel’s Yard Wood­turn­ing Art Gallery, at 4 Lawrence Wong Road, Long­denville, from 10 am to 5 pm.

“What I do is unique in Trinidad and To­ba­go. There are many wood­turn­ers who make func­tion­al pieces like rolling pins, mor­tars and pes­tles, they turn balus­ters, but I have gone be­yond that, and I am mak­ing dec­o­ra­tive, artis­tic pieces out of wood … There is a line that sep­a­rates wood­craft from wood art,” he ex­plained, and de­scribed his work as an ad­vanced lev­el of wood­turn­ing.

The theme of the ex­hib­it is Come and See, and he said pa­trons will al­so be al­lowed to touch the pieces.

“The am­bi­ence and the way how peo­ple op­er­ate is dif­fer­ent to a paint­ing gallery. It’s not art on the wall that you just have to stand up and look. You in­ter­act with the pieces and get a feel of the wood they are made from.”

There is no en­trance fee and there will be se­cure park­ing.

For more in­for­ma­tion

call 798-0960, 798-9234 or

email evans9332@gmail.com