The Artists

Todd & Elizabeth Butler
The Butler Did It

Simple yet elegant woodworking

(360) 662-0629
info@thebutlerdidit.ws
www.thebutlerdidit.ws

I think I've always been fascinated with wood. It has an unexplainable ability to make you want to reach out to touch it, feel it. It also has a way changing your mood. It has a way of calming the spirit. I've seen the ugliest raw wood turned into the most beautiful pieces of furniture. Although I've worked with wood for many years, I've only been building furniture for the public for a few. I started building furniture because "necessity is the mother of invention." When I needed furniture, I bought or borrowed some basic tools and away I went. My skills started off like those tools, basic, and have grown and evolved ever since. I do not expect that to ever end as there is always something new to be learned.

I often tell people that I take no credit for my pieces. I give all the credit to nature and its beauty. I try not to distract from the wood with ornate form or design. Simple joinery and clean lines are preferential to accentuate the beauty of the wood. I consider myself not an artist but the medium; a student of nature, to be molded from the lesson's that each piece of wood teaches.

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