The artist uses antique tools to make his figures, scavenging the wood from the forest that surrounds his 36-acre farm, or from leftover pine discarded by a nearby post-and-beam factory. Brightly colored with acrylics applied over a wax seal, each piece is given texture and depth by Precourt’s signature process: blowtorching the surface and then smoothing it with steel wool. A long-time collector of antique carving, Precourt is self taught. He prizes traditional techniques and the plainer lifestyle of simpler times, in keeping with his self-directed restoration of the 100-year-old farmhouse he and his late wife bought all those years ago.