This page is a gallery of some previous projects that I have worked on, both commissions and work for exhibitions. I hope that you enjoy looking through them.

Musical Instruments for a Playground

St Werburghs Community Centre in Bristol have been redeveloping a car park as a play area and asked if I could make some ‘sensory structures’ for the area – which gave the chance to make musical instruments! Researching how to make and tune them was a fascinating process. It was made a little trickier as …

A rabbit for the boss of Ann Summers 2018

The ‘Jackie Collins Woman of the Year’ award is presented every year by the cancer charity Penny Brohn UK. For the last three years, I have been honoured to be asked to carve each one. All of them are different in design and a lot of effort is put into making each one special to the …

Gifts: wood engraving and carvings that say ‘Thank you’

Quite a few carvings that I have made were for a particularly lovely reason: to say thanks. Sometimes they were for people who were leaving a job or other role, sometimes they were just for valued friends. Sometimes, I’m asked to carve inscriptions on unusual objects which are to be given as gifts. …

Carved signs for Homes and for Businesses

Whether it’s a new wooden house or business sign or a thank you gift for someone who is retiring, I can make it. I don’t just carve signs though; many businesses have used my services before, as well as other organisations such as community groups and charities, to commission one-off gifts and promotional items. Signs …

Teaching woodcarving in Bristol

It’s always interesting to see what different students want from tutored woodcarving sessions and adapting my teaching to them. Some people like to be shown a few particular techniques and then to get on with practising them with some guidance if needed, whereas others want to try as many different things as possible in the …

Making my Sgian Dubh (worn with a kilt)

I’m in the process of buying a kilt and wanted to wear a sgian dubh – the traditional knife – in my hose (sock). Looking at ones online, they were either well out of my price range or looked a bit tacky (covered in thistles and saltires etc.) Being a woodcarver with a particular interest in knife …

Carvings with Stories