11th APRIL 2010 Gordon Possien

Gordon Possien has been earning his living as a carver of wood since 1979. Each of his wood carvings is an original creation. An endless imagination is his main ingredient for his talent of working with wood.

Gordon's studio is located high in the Colorado Rockies in the small town of Pitkin, Colorado. At an elevation of 9,245 feet, Pitkin is on the old Denver and South Park railroad line in Gunnison County, 28 miles northwest of Gunnison. Pitkin was Colorado's first mining camp west of the continental divide. Continuous discovery of mines in the vicinity brought Pitkinto life and sustained it for many years. In 1884, the hotels and restaurants were serving over five hundred guests on Sundays. The town boasted of having over two thousand inhabitants. The remote mountain hamlet was booming! Today, the population is around 100 inhabitants, just a quite little laid back mountain town.