These are mainly commissions, I am always making new sculptures, and am able to work with any design and ideas you may have, for indoors or outdoors, and in a range of materials
1m wide softwood round with bored hole and pyrography growth rings
Working with designer Carmen Zurl, this bed incorporates two ash ‘dragons’, or huge old pleachers which had been cut out of a hedge.
The ladders are pieces of ash, with oak steps cut into them. First time anyones allowed me to use a chainsaw in their bedroom!
leaf in ash on a triangular ash base finished with walnut oil. With 4" solid glass ball. Made with artist David M Flower
Leaf in sycamore on polished blackthorn base. With 4" solid glass ball
leaf in ash on a triangular ash base finished with walnut oil. With 4" solid glass ball. Made with artist David M Flower
Oak billhook on ash support and base with brass plaque made for the Devon Hedge Competition trophy
Oak billhook on ash support and base with brass plaque made for the Devon Hedge Competition trophy
Oak billhook on ash support and base with brass plaque made for the Devon Hedge Competition trophy
sweet chestnut fish, should last a while outside and it was great fun to make, reminding me all over again why I love working creatively with wood!
This is a tactile very smooth piece of yew wood, made for a friend who is very ill. She finds it very good to hold, engaging her sense of touch in hard times
This is a split willow log bolted and lashed together with hardwood logs inserted in the space between the logs. It is about 9' long and 3' high
Heather commisioned me to make a wooden sculpture for a certain place in her garden. because these pieces of scalloped beech were so amazingly patterned I brought them over for her to look at, and together we arranged them as she liked.
The body and wings are in wood, the thorax in bone and the eyes are balls of lime mortar. I am able to work with any design for sculpture.
Giant chisel in ash wood and with metal ferrule. Made as a thank you gift for a friend.
Sculpture in willow and driftwood
Sculpture in driftwood
These are turned to 120cm long and 38mm wide, specially made for Jan Griffiths who knits large pieces of work in Marino wool
made with elastic bands and nail joints, these transform from their robot mode into an aeroplane, boat, tank and rocket launcher. Made with my step son
Oak billhook with hand carved 'Times New Roman' text mounted on ash 'pleacher' with brass name plate. Approx 30cm high
Oak billhook with hand carved and painted words, mounted on ash 'pleacher' with brass name plate. Approx 30cm high
Hand carved signs and blackboard signs
Times New Roman font carved with chisels into curved oak plank, letters painted black, treated with Osmo oil.
Times New Roman font carved with chisels into curved oak plank, letters painted black, treated with Osmo oil.
I made this sign for our cottage near Totnes. The wood is oak and the font is Times New Roman.
Double sided and hinged exterior blackboard sign made from plywood with hook and rope fixtures.
I carved this plaque for my Nanna using a chip carving knife
The plaque is now painted and oiled and on the grave
Rocking chairs for indoors. All chairs are made using green woodwork techniques of 'shrinking mortice and tennon' joints, so that only the arms are glued into place and the rest of the joints hold by natural shrinking of green wood (legs) onto dry wood (spindles and rails). All chairs go through a carefully controlled drying process after construction, so please bear this in mind when ordering this kind of chair. I do keep a certain stock of these chairs for this reason.
Rocker in Ash, hazel, cherry, spalted sycamore and oak wood, finished with a clear wax. Seagrass seat woven in an Irish pattern
Rocking chair in ash, cherry pear and oak wood, finished with walnut oil. Seat in seagrass woven in full Irish pattern
Rocking chairs in their natural habitat
Caspar, Simon and I have worked on this rocking chair over the last year on and off. The seat is oak, cut from a tree felled in Caspar’s garden. The arms and comb are holly and the rest is ash. Caspar thinks that it is a ‘good chair’, and so do I!
Chunky sculptural furniture. Held together with screws and oak pegs and treated with exterior UV resistant Osmo oils for a long life outside.
chainsaw furniture in Ash
I was commissioned to make 2 simple benches, which evolved over time into quite artistic pieces. This bench is made from softwood milled on site and treated with ‘lifetime’ wood preserver
One of a pair of benches. Letters carved with a router and finished with chisels
all locally grown oak mortice and tenon jointed formal garden furniture. Chair £400, bench £800
the 3 legs on this table are pitch pine from a ship's mast, set in with mortice and tennon joints, and bolted together with gate crooks.
formal garden furniture made from Robert’s oak planks milled from his own woodland
Made from split sweet chestnut, the frame is constructed with mortice and tenon joints and the spars and brace are screwed on.
The pice of drift wood which forms the legs and arms of this bench was found at Millook beach near Bude in Cornwall. I cut the lengths in half and smoothed them down to expose the beautiful grain. The rest of the bench is made up of oak heartwood planks and struts from oak cut from a hedge in pyworthy. All the fixings are stainless steel and they are all capped with oak pegs. The whole bench is treated with exterior grade Osmo oil to ensure this bench remains as a family heirloom!
This section of driftwood is a rootball and the grain ripples and swirls like the sea, in which it has floated for who knows how long before it was washed up on Millook beach near Bude in Cornwall, where I was lucky enough to find it.
Two seater bench in ash wood with driftwood decoration. Held together with screws, which are all capped with oak pegs. Treated with UV resistant Osmo exterior oils for a long life outside.
Heavy duty chair in ash wood with apple arms. Pieces are sculpted, screwed together and the screwheads capped with slightly proud oak pegs. Finished in exterior UV resistant Osmo oils for a long life outdoors.
Heavy duty chair in ash wood with apple arms. Pieces are sculpted, screwed together and the screwheads capped with slightly proud oak pegs. Finished in exterior UV resistant Osmo oils for a long life outdoors
How this chair looks in the garden
How this chair looks in the garden
Heather commisioned me to create a bench made of oak around this wonderful oak tree in her garden. After some searching I found some trunks of the right curvature, split them with axe and wedges, then hewed them with an axe, and smoothed them with a drawknife. they are pinned with oak pegs to oak logs each sunk 12" or more in the ground, so this bench is here to stay!
Thanks for your help with the design Heather, I'm really pleased with how it turned out!
A long view of the bench
Sycamore wood bench with blackthorn arch and spindles, hawthorn legs attached with tenons and oak wedges. Finished with exterior Osmo natural oils for a long life outside
The seat and legs are oak, the rest is elm and some drift wood from the river onto which the bench now looks . The fixings are nails and lashed nylon rope. I hope you see the water rats from your perch Denise!
bench made out of a pear tree in Devon. Mortice and tenon joints. The epiphyte ferns on the tree survived on the now living bench
This chair is made of only 4 pieces of willow wood. The rope is sisal natural fibre.
This is a simple hazel frame chair with a beautiful piece of pippy oak as the back rest. The joints are mortice and tennon or lashed. I have since added a coffee cup rest to the extending front leg.
The shape is created from split ash wood in a willow frame, connected with twists of wire. The exact shape of this piece is always unique and always symmetrical due to the nature of using split halves of logs in its construction. Free standing designs are possible on enquiry
Made from split sweet chestnut, the frame is constructed with mortice and tenon joints and the spars and brace are screwed on.
love spoons based around the initials of the happy couple, and wooden items of jewellery
The first initials are both contained in this love spoon, a wedding gift
These are from crab apple with resin inlay and silver findings
These are from crab apple with resin inlay and silver findings
Wearing this type of jewellery is a way to connect your body more fully to the powerful energies of particular woods. This bracelet is made from yew, which in the Ogham alphabet is the tree of Transformation in the continuous interconnected cycles of death and rebirth.
A wedding gift for Steve and Sally, designed with intertwining 'S' and 'S'
Wooden free standing shelves and side tables
Spalted beech corner shelves to soften the edges in this bathroom
Simon looking pleased with his new sycamore work top which I provided for him
Top and bottom surfaces are in spalted sycamore, middle shelf is sturdy, lightweight plywood. The supports are forked ash and willow branches. Structurally I have used screws throughout, with all screw heads capped with oak pegs. I can make This in any size and shape.
Top and bottom surfaces are in spalted sycamore, middle shelf is sturdy, lightweight plywood. The supports are forked ash and willow branches. Structurally I have used screws throughout, with all screw heads capped with oak pegs. I can make This in any size and shape.
The willow wood front and back frames are spanned with sweet chestnut wood supports, using mortice and tennon joints, all of which are fully detachable. The plywood shelves fit on to the supports securely, while also being fully detachable. The only fixings are 4 removable corner screws, but the unit is rock solid and lightweight.
Small side table, beautiful spalted lime top with hazel legs and spars
From bowls to spoons
Long bowl in strawberries and cream yew wood, smooth all over and finished with walnut oil
This is now being used as a trophy by the Western Counties Heavy Horse Society.
Sycamore wood butter dish finished with walnut oil
Sycamore wood butter dish finished with walnut oil
Sycamore wood 27cm wide chopping board finished with walnut oil
Carved plywood mirror in a wave shape, varnished
Laburnum wood butter knife finished with walnut oil
Butter knife in oak
Pear wood butter knife finished with walnut oil
Yew wood tea spoon finished with walnut oil
Holly wood spoon with spiralling cube handle. Finished with walnut oil. 12" long
Sycamore wood spoon with hand carved spiral handle. Finished with walnut oil. 11" long.
Linen napkins with hazel wood napkin rings. This is a box of 6, any number available to order
Egg cups in hazel and ash wood, finished with walnut oil.
Sycamore wood 20cm square chopping board, finished with walnut oil
Sycamore wood 26cm long chopping board finished with walnut oil
Douglas fir wood coaster, 9cm square, finished with want oil
Douglas fir wood coaster, 9cm square, finished with want oil
Douglas fir wood coaster, 9cm square, finished with want oil
This is now being used as a trophy by the Western Counties Heavy Horse Society.
These are turned to 120cm long and 38mm wide, specially made for Jan Griffiths who knits large pieces of work in Marino wool
smaller chairs with cushions or upholstered.
All side chairs measure approximately 21" high by 12" wide.
The armchairs are bigger (approx 30" high by 17" wide) to suit an older child.
The table is designed to suit the smaller side chairs
The table top is spalted lime, the legs are smoothed hazel and the spars are smoothed ash. It is finished with Osmo natural food safe oil to make it last and to resist spillages and accidents!
Can you think of a better use for a chair?
Child's chair in hazel and cherry, all bark removed, finished with walnut oil. With upholstered linen seat.
Child's chair in hazel and cherry. Bark sealed with clear wax, bare wood finished with walnut oil. Upholstered in traditional dark linen
Blackthorn and cherry wood frame with holly wood arms, finished with walnut oil. Has a plywood seat painted green. . Handmade foam seat with gardening motif fabric. This chair measures 33" high by 19" wide.
Child's chair in blackthorn, cherry and yew finished with walnut oil, with a solid seat painted blue with owl/tree fabric cushion
This is a mid-size chair, measuring 33" high by 19" wide
materials: blackthorn and cherry frame, holly arms and unpainted pine seat. finished with walnut oil.
Child's chair in hazel and cherry. Bark sealed with clear wax, bare wood finished with walnut oil. Upholstered in deep brown traditional linen
Child's chair in blackthorn and cherry finished with walnut oil, with plywood seat painted blue and handmade cushion with ties
Wooden foot stools with various seating materials
Ash and cherry wood frame with driftwood spindles, finished in clear wax. Seagrass seat woven in an Irish pattern. 13" by 14".
Ash wood stool made on the pole lathe after a Mike Abbott pattern. Finished with walnut oil. Traditional woven rush seat.
small stool in sycamore with hazel legs
