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Born in Toronto in 1947, Jim Lorriman has pursued woodworking from a young age. For the past ten years he has been applying his skills full-time as a self-taught woodturner in his Mulmur Hills studio near Mansfield, Ontario.

His first profession as a woodworker involved making cabinets in a shop where he had several employees. After developing serious allergies to wood dust he involved himself in non-wood related enterprises from the mid-eighties to early nineties. During this time he developed Tapestry maps with John Haines, sat on the Board for the Georgian Triangle Economic Development Corporation and owned a die-cut puzzle operation.

Jim has been a very active member of the arts community in Mulmur, having founded the Headwaters Arts Festival in the Hills, sitting on the Board of the

Headwaters Country Tourism Association, working with the Dufferin Arts Council and the South Simcoe Arts Council to produce an Arts & Culture Guide and co-founding the Made of Wood Show. He has been an active participant in many local art events, including the Headwaters Studios Tour and the Hidden Treasures Discovery Bus Tour. He is represented in a number of galleries throughout Ontario and shows at various venues such as the Ojibway Club Art Show near his Georgian Bay cottage. His dedication to and love of his work is apparent in his commitment to the arts community and in the careful craftsmanship of his pieces.