J PAUL FENNELL has focused primarily on turning hollow forms for the last 35 of the 53 years that he has been a woodturner. He has been a major influence in turned wood art for over 30 years. Paul is a 37-year member of the American Association of Woodturners and is the 2023 recipient of the Professional Outreach Program Merit Award—an award which recognizes the lifetime careers of professionals and the influence that their work has had on other artists in the field of woodturning. Up to this time, his work has been featured in over 35 major books, magazines, and exhibit catalogs with respect to woodturning. His work is in major private collections nationally and internationally, and in several museum collections, including the Smithsonian; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Cincinnati Art Museum; Museum of Art & Design, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. His work exhibits the highest standards of craftmanship and artistic quality. Paul has for decades supported the field of woodturning through writing, demonstrations and teaching workshops.