While County Limerick has given many notable things to the world - from a wealth of artistic and cultural events and institutions to such people as broadcaster Terry Wogan and current President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins - it isn't necessarily a locality that one would associate with Woodturning. If there is one person who represents an exception to that rule, however, it has to be Liam Flynn, the Abbeyfeale native who has been described by the Limerick Leader as "one of the foremost artists in wood of his generation." The distinctive shapes of Flynn's pieces are attributable to the particular way in which the wood dries or distorts itself as part of his woodturning process. In Liam's words, "It is an interplay between the material and its natural drying and my own stamp." The artist is more interested in shape and texture than in the nature of the wood, but he is also enthralled by the constant learning opportunities that the practice of Woodturning Chuck affords him. As he puts it