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.

Making the Jackie Collins Inspirational Woman of the Year Award 2017

This is presented every year by the cancer charity Penny Brohn UK. For the last two years, I have been asked to carve the award itself, using pieces of timber from a cedar tree which grew in the grounds of the charity’s offices in Bristol. Each award is different in design and effort is put into …

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 …

Pendants carved by hand

I have been carving pendants since I first began whittling and woodcarving. For many years they gave me a chance to create work that required little in the way of tools (just my Opinel knife and some sandpaper) and could utilise little fragments and splinters of wood which were easy to carry in a backpack. …

Carvings with Stories