Gary Stevens lives in Soquel, California with his wife and 3 children.  He creates sculptural vessels from native burls in redwood, myrtle, buckeye, koa, sycamore, and maple, as well as from fine sustainable-forest exotic hardwoods such as cocobolo and ebony.  
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Gary's sculptures are shown in numerous prestigious galleries and museums throughout the country.  Gary's been woodturning/sculpting as an avocation for over 25 years in the tradition of architect Ed Moulthrop, and engineer Melvin Lindquist, and has concurrently worked for over 22 years as a professional in the commercial construction field.  As job superintendent, he is responsible to bring the building out of the ground to turn-key completion.  The Stanford University Alumni Building (valued at 31 million dollars) was completed Spring 2001.