It has been a fascinating journey figuring out how these chairs are made, studying real examples, deconstruction and reverse engineering the various parts, reference books like one written by James Mursell, and the odd Youtube video. Very clever, and sophisticated …
Lignum vitae is a very extraordinary timber from central America, the West Indies and northern South America, CITES protected now, thankfully. Extraordinary because of its properties of being immensely dense, highly water resistant, and containing a very waxy resin throughout …
I first watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: a personal voyage in the early 1980s, and to this day it is as enthralling, fresh, humbling and awe-inspiring as it was all those years ago. Neil de Grasse Tyson’s re-telling, Cosmos: a spacetime …
In response to a customer enquiry through the website for an oval tray to hold eggs I adapted one of my existing designs. The two egg holders hold a total of 22 eggs, and are removeable for cleaning, plus the …
A new product (eggs not included, it would be messy) Read more »
I like to keep learning about wood as a material, and learning new skills. Learning to make Windsor chairs has been something I have wanted to try, so with the aid of a good book, Youtube, and long distance advice …
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot”, and “You don’t know what you’ve got, until it’s gone” are lines from a great song, Big Yellow Taxi, from the incomparable Joni Mitchell. Depletion of nature and biodiversity loss has …
Dee Hardwicke is a very accomplished and well known designer, artist and knitter, and now a customer of mine! Through Stonegate Gallery, Ingleton, she purchased one of my North American cherry basket and tray combinations, and a presentation box with …
Customer Dee Hardwicke, knitwear designer and artist Read more »
I was commissioned to make an extra large Shaker box as a part of a wedding gift to house a book and a special shawl that itself had been made especially for the bride. I did not have the templates …
I feel very honoured to have been asked to exhibit my Shaker inspired bentwood trays, baskets, bowls and boxes at this year’s Northern Star at the prestigious Platform Gallery, in the charming market town of Clitheroe, in the Ribble Valley, …
Northern Star 2019, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, Lancashire Read more »