Peter Goumans to Demonstrate Resin-Embedded Pen Turning at FVWG March 12

The Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild has scheduled a hybrid demonstration titled “Turning Pens with Peter Goumans” for March 12, 2026 at 7pm, to be held at Robert Bateman Secondary School and streamed on Zoom. The event listing appears on the FVWG Upcoming Meetings & Demonstrations page and names Peter Goumans as the presenter for the evening session.

FVWG’s event page notes personal details for the demonstrator: “Peter Goumans lives in Abbotsford with his wife Mary.” The page also records Peter’s tenure with the club, saying “He started turning pens about 10 years ago around the time he joined the Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild,” signaling a decade of practice tied directly to his FVWG membership.

Technique and materials for the March 12 demo are described on the FVWG page, which states: “When making his pens, Peter experiments with many different media including pinecones, stone and other unique materials. He embeds many of these materials into casting resins to form his own blanks.” The same FVWG copy adds that “Peter markets his creations to specialized galleries in Canada, the US, Australia and other parts of the world,” indicating a commercial reach beyond the local market.

The page also acknowledges Peter’s earlier schedule disruption: “We had scheduled Peter to demonstrate his prowess in turning pens in 2020, but COVID-19 intervened and the Guild meetings were stopped.” That historical note frames the March 12 appearance as a long-awaited demonstration originally planned before pandemic-era cancellations.

Club infrastructure and meeting practice appear alongside the demo listing. FVWG’s monthly table shows adjacent entries such as “February 2026 | Segmented Turning | Tim WIlson |” and “March 2026 | Turning Pens | Peter Goomans |” (note the alternate spelling). Demonstration Committee listings on the FVWG page include Gary Burns as “Demonstration Committee Chair,” Allan Cusworth as “Mentor & Demonstrator Accessor,” and Murray Sluys as a Demonstration Committee member, each shown with the prompt “Send a message;)” The club’s web presence also displays contact fields “Name / Email / Subject / Message” and the reCAPTCHA notice “This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.”

Third-party listings add context but contain conflicting dates: Pgwoodturners publishes a roster of future meeting dates for 2026 that includes March 26th and lists membership and meeting flow details such as “Our membership fee is $50 annually” and the standard meeting sequence of guild business, safety, show & tell, a turning demo, and a wood raffle. Dennis Belcher’s schedule confirms FVWG has hosted remote demos in the past, with an entry reading “Feb 8 2024 Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild, BC Canada - Remote Demonstration.”

The FVWG March 12 entry positions the club to showcase resin-embedded blanks and nontraditional materials in pen turning, while the site’s internal inconsistencies - the headline spelling “Goumans” versus the monthly table “Goomans,” and differing March meeting dates on secondary pages - remain visible on the captured pages. If the listing holds, the March 12 hybrid demo will be a concrete example of FVWG’s continued use of in-person sessions at Robert Bateman Secondary School paired with Zoom access.