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I am totally grieved by the decimation of the tropical forests of the world. I only turn with native woods, which are either fallen, driftwood, or which I know are going to be replaced.

I turn mainly Ash, Sycamore and Oak and fruitwoods when available.

I love pottery, particularly the work of craft potters (and spend far too much money buying pots) and my turning is very much influenced by the shapes of pots, but I could never be a potter because of the timescale of production, although the immediacy of raku does appeal.

 

"Man has no older or deeper debt
than to trees and their wood"

 

  

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I have always liked wood, be it in the form of a tree or a single piece of timber.

I like the shape, the grain, the feel and the smell.

Woodturning is mechanical. Wood on lathe and gouge on wood equals shape, useful or abstract. It is quick and there is an immediacy for me in woodturning, which attracts, like the immediacy of painting attracts. The result is unknown until you start the actual turning. It is the intuitive following of the grain and I do not do a drawing before I turn. Bad bowls turn into very good candle holders ….(for which I also make the candles.)

 
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