I love eating from wooden bowls, I love hearing from folk who eat from my wooden bowls and I love most of all seeing photos of those bowls in use. I tell folk that they get nicer as they are used more but pictures of well used bowls tell the story so much better. So please do send me pics…
Regular visitors will know that the bowls in my gallery pages are often showing as sold, I don’t get round to updating as often as I should and often bowls find homes quite quickly once I do photograph them. Today I put all these new bowls up on my gallery page For folk in London you can also see my…
I spent Friday collecting a large beech tree. This is an exciting time, I am very careful selecting wood that I hope will turn well, the right wood is a joy to use and makes great bowls. You never know from the outside of a tree how it will be to work. I am often asked which wood is may…
These Bowls and plates are commissioned for a new shop in Mayfair called The New Craftsmen. I am really pleased with the way they have turned out, bowls in sycamore some flame blackened, plates in beech. The blackened bowls are something I used to do quite often 10 years or so ago but have not done recently. I still have some of…
I spend a lot of time posting about my woodworking and other fun stuff here and often forget to update the most important bit of my various online sites, the gallery pages where people can buy my work. In fact most fo the pages have been showing “currently out of stock” for ages. I do have some nice bowls now…
The last three days I have been teaching a bowl carving course, these are the bowls we made Here is the early stage Steve adzing out the hollow everyone made two bowls, the first is a standard design just to get to grips with the tools and techniques. Once that is done we start again with a larger piece of…
I just posted these off tot heir new home St Fagans museum of Welsh Life. They are copies of iron age bowls found at the Glastonbury lake villages. I have been very very familiar with the drawings for many years but never made them up before and as is often the case the finished artefact is very very different in 3d than…
So much else going on I rarely get the chance to post images of work here any more so here are a few pics of what I have been up to. This week I went to collect wood. There was a gorgeous looking beech log I have had my eye on for a while but when I cut it open…
Last year I did a piece for Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution. I did a blog post at the time with photos here but now there is a copy of the film on youtube, hope you enjoy it, we had a fun day. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXa-5WLYho]
Wooden bowls are very simple things but they also have the capacity to be very meaningful. This bowl was made by George Lailey “the last bowlturner” who died in 1958 and was the inspiration behind my work. It is a joy to use and all the nicer because it has already seen 60 years hard use. Wooden bowls when made…
