Greg Kent
Your wood comes via local tree surgeons. Do you give them a list of trees you are after, or is it a mystery delivery? I collect wood from wherever I…
Philip Walker
Explain the importance of both Qest and training with Alison Crowther. My scholarship funding from Qest provides an opportunity to have dedicated…
Patricia Shone
Your method is very manual and physical discuss.Forest Jar, 2021, height 23cm The feel of soft clay in my hands and between my fingers. Years of…
Keoni Carlson
Your work is an illusion. Discuss Illusion work involves using one medium/material to look like another. In my case, I use wood to represent the…
Norm Sartorius
You comment, “It’s (a spoon) an instrument, a tool of nurturing that is universal, or very close to universal, in the human experience.” Discuss.…
Alison Crowther
Can you explain how you came to be working with wood, especially at such a large scale? I started working with wood whilst doing my first degree in…
Eleanor Lakelin
What lead you to work with wood?I grew up in a very rural part of Wales surrounded by hills. Roaming through woods collecting natural things,…
Roger Bennett
Discuss the use of colour in your work. I colour my work with water-based wood dyes, and I finish with three applications of Danish oil which…
Alain Mailland
You are an active member of the French Association of Artistic Woodturning, discuss how this membership has assisted in your career and……
Benoît Averly
xplain how meeting and speaking to Gilbert Buffard changed everything for you? I met Gilbert Buffard in 2002. A friend of mine had taken a class…
Richard Kennedy
Your work is creative and ornamental can you take three pieces and discuss them and the techniques you have developed to create them? Much of my work…
Nic Webb
You initially trained in fine art at Brighton College from 1991 -1994, when did you move into your craft of spoon making? I made my first spoon…