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Timothy Maynard
Furniture Maker and Carver Sacred NoirNewark Ohio 43055 United States Cell Phone: 6144392197
Bio
Travis Maynard is a self-taught furniture maker and carver working in Newark, Ohio, under the studio name Sacred
Noir. His practice began in 2022.
He builds solid-wood furniture and objects, including writing desks, chairs, cabinets, and game boards, largely on
private commission. The work combines traditional joinery and hand carving in relief with marquetry and inlay in
fine silver, copper, brass, and bronze. Many pieces hold concealed compartments or mechanisms. Gothic, Romanesque,
Baroque, and classical sources inform the ornament.
Recent work includes Archivum Obscura, a writing desk (2025); Sedes Umbrae, a chair (2025); and Ad Astra, a
backgammon board carved in relief and inlaid with fine silver and copper (2024). His game boards form an ongoing
series; both of his chess boards sold on commission.
He is a member of The Furniture Society and Ohio Designer Craftsmen. His work will be shown at the Fall 2026 Fine
Arts Fair at the Historic Newark Arcade on November 8, 2026.
Artist Statement
I build studio furniture and objects in solid wood: writing desks, chairs, cabinets, game boards, and pieces that
answer to no category but their own. Traditional joinery, hand carving in relief, hand-cut marquetry, and inlay in
fine silver, copper, brass, and bronze, with metal worked in where the piece calls for it. I am self-taught. My
practice began in 2022, and my chemistry background became the finishing and hand-aging processes I use to bring
cherry to a depth that oxidation alone would take decades to reach.
The idea in the work is surface and secret, both by design. Some of a piece’s completion is hidden: a compartment, a
mechanism, a lock that opens only to its owner. Some is on the surface: Gothic and Baroque carving, celestial
inlay, a client’s initials resolving out of foliate scrollwork. The two are the same impulse, a refusal of the
merely adequate version of a thing. Each piece is made to be used, repaired, refinished, and kept.
