For the last couple of months I’ve been experimenting with painting the outsides of my recent woodturned bowls. The results so far are lovely and add a delightful quality to the bowls.   Painting them also adds a lot of time to the making process. I am using a vegan paint method of pure pigment mixed only with linseed oil, Continue Reading »

I recently received a request to make a large turned oak pizza plate So I made several. I cut a short section off the end of the remaining length of wind fallen oak I had been using to make sculpture. And from it made these wood turned platters of various size and shape. The first was styled like a large Continue Reading »

The oak in the acorn is felled. says Dylan Thomas, in The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait. And the hawk in the egg kills the wren.  Dylan most likely thought of this as a retort to the philosopher, James Allen’s more romantic, less existential statement, – The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak Continue Reading »

A return to west Wales has revived my interest in the handmade item, perhaps due to the particular morphic resonance that permeates hereabouts. Local peer pressure, whether it be from the land’s memory or from my human neighbours often favours practical substance craft over the pretensions of grandiose Art. I struggle with the relevance of the art vs craft debate, Continue Reading »