Blog

  • Workshops

    Latest works and 2019 dates

    New furniture and next year's courses

    I've been working on some interesting projects the last few months. In the main image is a pair of bar stools that turned out nicely. I used traditional milk paint on them, the first time I've done this. The effect is rather pleasing.

    05 / 11 / 2018
  • Courses

    Ten weeks later

    Chair-making in London

    Well done to these two blokes.

    09 / 12 / 2016
  • Courses

    Chair-making hits London

    Getting crafty in Crystal Palace

    Courses at my London workshop in Crystal Palace are gathering momentum nicely. I’ve had the first two – a taster session then a stool-making course that finished last week. Both went down really well – axes swinging, shavings flying and everyone getting properly stuck in.

    10 / 07 / 2016
  • Furniture

    Bidding farewell to a friend

    Bruton, Somerset

    On the way back from my week in the woods in Wales, I passed by Bruton in Somerset to deliver a chair to a customer.

    26 / 03 / 2016
  • Courses

    Things are happening

    Redwood Valley eco-retreat

    I've just spent the week up in Wales trying to make some headway with the new woodland workshop from which I'll be running chair-making and other green woodwork courses from later this summer.

    26 / 03 / 2016
  • Public art project

    Talking Trail

    Aston Rowant, Buckinghamshire

    I recently went to pay a visit to the site of a big outdoor art project I worked on in 2012. 

    26 / 03 / 2016