A new film of the work I made for my show at Haddon Hall inspired by the incredible medieval woodwork there. The film was commissioned by my friend and mentor Bill Amberg. Bill Amberg Studio @ Haddon Hall with Robin Wood from Bill Amberg Studio on Vimeo.
So four months work are coming to fruition with the opening of my first ever show. This marks 20 years as a full time woodworker and it has been a very interesting process. Most interesting has been the challenge to create something new to fit in to an environment that I have admired for 25 years. To create a body…
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…
The excavations at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 were the biggest ever dig in the UK. They also uncovered a particularly fine wooden bowl. I loved the bowl from when I saw the first images and was thrilled to be asked to make a replica of it to go in a display in the terminal building. The original is above and below…
I have just finished a very enjoyable 3 day bowl carving course. These 8 bowls were carved by 4 course participants. This was only the second bowl course I have run, the first was a great success with students making 2 bowls each and a fantastic standard of work. I was unsure though whether we were just lucky with a…
Carving wooden bowls is a wonderful thing to do. It is a bit harder physically than spooncarving and requires a few more dedicated tools but the results are wonderful. Here are a couple of bowls carved by students on our first bowlcarving course. I have been carving bowls for some time and before starting to teach I tried out all…
Would you like to see some beautiful wooden bowls? These are not my work but carved by students on a most enjoyable course this week. Having been offering spoon carving courses for some years now it was a natural progression to offer a bowl carving course but I was not quite happy with any of the techniques or particularly…
This is my 12 year old son Ollie’s first bowl, made from willow. First he split the log in half. Next he cut a piece to length. Note stylish pink crocks. Axing the base of the bowl flat and removing all the pith. And planing the base flat. This is not totally necessary but it helps when judging the thickness…
This period between Christmas and new year is a time for playing with things that I would not have time for at other times. Whilst I have been experimenting with bowlcarving over the last months I have been primarily working in a Scandinavian/European tradition both tools and designs. I have always very much admired the work of the native cultures…
We have just uploaded course dates for next year and for the first time are running bowl carving courses. This will be Swedish style bowlcarving so we will be using axes and adzes carving green wood bowls like these.We will also be doing one course on shrink pots which should be fun. The courses last year were very popular and…
