Starry Nights

These wall-panels are carved in elm. I've attempted to follow the brush-strokes with a chisel, illuminating by moonlight, the textures of the earth and rhythms of the night.

Book Cover

This coffee-table book launched Autumn 2011 has a detail of my 'cleft oak dish' on the front cover. The book illustrates 90 contemporary craft makers, selected and edited by Piyush Suri.

Cleft Oak Dish

Selected for the 7th Cheongju International Craft Biennale in South Korea 2011.

Recent Find

Logs this size yield material big enough for stool seats or boxes. Air-drying will take about 3 years. Removing big-butts piece-by-piece this way is a resourceful means of sourcing timber from an unusual lie. Heavy vehicles are not required.  

Cleft Oak Bench

This riven oak bench will be shown in October with the Scottish Furniture Makers'  Anniversary Exhibition at the Edinburgh Dovecot Gallery. It uses timber cleft along growth lines for a durable seat and legs, with curves both subtle and unusual.

Sawn Ark

With wedges removed, this chest can be taken apart and moved when necessary by one person. I was able to deliver it to the Tenby National Trust Merchants House in Wales using the hatch-back! It replicates a large Medieval ark for storing grain or flour.     

Riven Ark

Meal chest or Arks were once used to store grain for bread making etc. The curved lid lifts off and could be turned upside down on a table-surface for kneading dough.

The simplicity and refinement is replicated from an original from the V&A. Made with oak cleft by wedge-and-mallet, this ark is now on public display at Tretower Court in South Wales.