Australian Wood Review

A New Award for Woodturning

he newly created annual $1,500 Jan Pennell Woodturning Award is a generous bequest from the estate of the late Jan Pennell, a distinguished RAAF servicewoman who was also an accomplished woodturner.Jan Pennell was born in 1948 and grew up in country NSW, trained as a nurse and

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