Francisco still recalls the smell of freshly cut Spanish cedar and cypress from his childhood in Huelva, Spain. While just a boy, he began apprenticing in furniture making under his godfather, learning skills that would last a lifetime. After high school, travels and studies in Hotel Administration interrupted his work in wood.

In 1973 while working at a prestigious hotel in Marbella, Spain, Francisco met Master Clyde Siggins, a renowned custom homebuilder in California. A kinship developed and during a visit to Siggins in the United States, Francisco decided to stay in Las Vegas, Nevada and abandon hotel work in favor of becoming a home builder as Clyde Siggins.

In 1980 travels to Hawaii he found a home away from home. Settling on Oahu, he continued his work in home remodeling and returned to furniture making. While researching how to create bedposts for a custom bed he had designed, he bought his first lathe. His life as a wood artist had begun.

Francisco starts with a design in mind, but as he interacts with the wood, he gently gives way to it. “The wood is alive and yet dead, and then comes alive again”, he explains. The spontaneity of his life fuels his creativity. “I am always in search of the ultimate expression, a mischievous quest for adventure and the unknown” he says. "I love the feeling of having done something new or different."

2010 Hawaii Wood Show – “Honorable Mention”

2009 Windward Artist Guild Juried Exhibition – “Third Place”

2007 Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce “Commitment to Excellence” Juried Exhibition:
     - Honorable Mention
     - Acquisition Award from The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
     Association of Hawaii Artist Juried Exhibition – “Third Place”
     Kim Taylor Reece Gallery Juried Exhibition – “Best in Show”
     Hawaii Craftsmen Juried Exhibition – “Award of Excellence”
     Hawaii Wood Show:
        - Acquisition Award from The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
        - The Roger Skolmen Award

2006 Association of Hawaii Artist Juried Exhibition – “Third Place”

2004 Hawaii Wood Show – “Honorable Mention”

2009
Artists of Hawaii, Juried Exhibition at The Honolulu Academy of Arts

2009-2007-2005-2001
Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce “Commitment to Excellence” – Juried Exhibition

2009
Windward Artists Guild – Juried Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii

2009-2008-2007
Association of Hawaii Artists – Juried Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii

2009-2008-2007-2006-2005-2004-2003-2002-2001
Hawaii Wood Show

2009-2008-2007-2006-2005-2004-2003-2002-2001-2000
Hawaii Craftsmen – Juried Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii

2007
American Association of Woodturners – International Juried Exhibition at  The Oregon College of Arts, Portland, Oregon.
Kim Taylor Reece Gallery – Juried Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii

2005
Ohio Craft Museum “The Best of 2005” – Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio

Contemporary Hawaii Woodworkers by Tiffany DeEtte Shafto & Lynda McDaniel

Although attached to the roots of Hawaiian traditional calabash style of wood working, I am an advocate of Abstract Expressionism and when creating a piece of wood art, I avoid any preconceived idea of how I want that piece to look like and instead I follow an unknown path created by a vision in my mind’s eye, and in this search for the ultimate expression, I free myself from any artistic rule or convention.

I hope that you like my work.