WORLAND — Master frame maker, carver, gilder and print maker Barrie Lynn Bryant of Kirby will present making tondo frames to the Worland Wyoming Woodturners during the club meeting at 9 a.m. this Saturday, at 1092 Ponderosa in Sam Angelo’s backyard shop.

The public is invited to attend the two-hour session which begins with club vice president Dave Morgan leading a brief show and tell, after which Bryant will demonstrate making round picture frames known as tondos. Bryant’s demonstration is in preparation for his classes he’s teaching in Las Vegas Jan. 23-24 during The National Conference at West Coast Art & Frame Expo.

Bryant taught two classes at the Expo last year and has been hired to return. The Expo is affiliated with Picture Framing Magazine, to which Bryant is a contributing writer and has feature stories in February and October 2017 and the current January 2018 issues.

All three articles are related to Bryant’s work with gilding, and two feature the picture frames he makes for the paintings by his wife, AB Word.

The October feature is somewhat different and particularly interesting since in it Bryant discusses his process of printing artwork and photographs onto hand-gilded paper using wide-format inkjet printers that he pioneered during fall of 2016. In fact, it is this process that got Bryant hired to teach in Las Vegas in the first place.

He was recommended to submit a proposal by Naomi Lipsky, President of the Society of Gilders, the international organization dedicated to promote all aspects of fine gilding, and the printing on gold was chosen. Bryant is also a newly elected trustee of the board of directors with Society of Gilders and will represent them in Las Vegas as well as teach.

Bryant actually debuted his technique of printing on hand-gilded paper in Worland during the 2016 Mammoth Quick Draw in Washakie Museum. For that event, Bryant gilded a frame with precious gold, and once finished, framed one of his wife’s pencil drawings of a Navajo girl and dog that he printed onto 23k gold leaf.

The small artwork auctioned for $650.

For more information, contact Bryant at 307-864-2697 and Sam Angelo at 307-431-5395.