ideas from the blog

something as living as nature
I want to create surfaces that have the energy and life of natural surfaces that become as fascinating and infinitely

what is interesting about the specific
“what is interesting about the specific is what it says about the universal”. I heard this said by Author Hisham

the mist of familiarity
In 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, “the mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being.” Is the

coincidence – pierced forms
Isn’t the web a feast of coincidence. A ring carved from bamboo by Kevin Woolgar @kevinwoolgar, a photographer in Puerto

Birdsong Tables
A while ago, sitting on a bridge in my local nature reserve and listening to a particularly soulful blackbird, I

Boxes as Sorbet
Boxes are a sorbet for the furniture maker – they refresh the palate between heavier and more complex pieces. But they

Goodbye table. I will remember your making.
It would be easy to think, looking at a calm and refined piece of furniture, that the experience of making

Clay, wood and beauty 3
If you’ve been reading the recent posts you’ll know that I’ve been thinking about the relationship between woodworking and ceramics,

clay, wood and beauty: 2
Paul Bradley – the maker of the pot in the previous post – pointed me at the work of Edmund