James Oleson

James Oleson has taken many art courses in drawing and oil paint­ing through the years, and since 1980 he has focused on design­ing and making furni­ture as his art medium. He has made most of the furni­ture in his home.

In recent years he attended work­shops relat­ing to furni­ture design and making with Rosanne Somer­son (Ander­son Ranch), Teri Masaschi (Center for Furni­ture Crafts­man­ship), Jeff Jewitt (Marc Adams School of Wood­work­ing), Michael Fortune (Ander­son Ranch), and Paul Schurch (Marc Adams School of Woodworking).

An image of his mesquite buffet was published by Lark Press in ​“500 Cabinets”.

Custom furni­ture design and making has been a very produc­tive and full-time commit­ment since he retired as a Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gist in 2010.