TRADITIONAL WOODWORK
My work includes tables, chairs, dressers, chests of drawers, corner cupboards, shelving and storage. I have a small but well equipped workshop and access to the best materials and techniques to accomplish almost any job involving wood. As a specialist in meeting customers' particular needs I like finding good design solutions and can draw on my experience to achieve real quality.
All my work is seen through by me from the first meeting with a client, to delivery and completion. I present clear designs and samples, and comprehensive and free quotations before any work is carried out, so that customers can feel confident they are getting what they want.
I sell chopping boards, spoons, bowls, picture frames, even jewellery boxes - anything small in wood in fact. Some products are available at Tablehurst Farm where I have my workshop. You can buy direct from me there or from the display in the farm shop. I also sell at shows and markets during the year. If you have something particular you are after give me a ring. Chairs and stools are available too in this way as well as by commission (also see Green Woodwork page)
Source is important so I don’t use rainforest timbers. I work with local woods or hardwoods from the temperate forests of Europe and North America. Environmental considerations include making sure there is wood for the next generation and not wasting it. The things I make are made to last. What’s great about wood is that wherever you make a space by cutting down a tree nature will put another one or two given half a chance.
Furniture - fitted and freestanding.
“Treen” or literally "of a tree"- any small object made from wood.
Environmental considerations have always informed my work.
I have been producing a wide range of both fitted and freestanding furniture for more than twenty years.
Cleaving green ash in a cleaving break
Planking some local oak from Crawley Down woodland. This oak was “sticked” and seasoned and has been used in many pieces of work.
I still have some left!
