About our journey

Recycling, reusing, reinventing and sustainably sourcing  materials featured even in my earliest creative explorations. Starting with papermache from old materials due to be thrown away or burned (as coal house fires were still common even in my youth) I would create and twist and manipulate the materials to what ever idea entered my mind.  

Since those early days I have moved through education exploring natural materials outside the curriculum, advancing in my formal and improvised education. after 20 years of experience as a willow weaver, wood carver and working and training in basketry and sculpture I took my skills to staffordshire university in 2018 where I gained a degree in 3D Designer Maker with a specialism in craft in 2021. 

during this pandemic working pushed me to focus on my highest skill sets of woodworking and willow craft as my green wood explorations enabled me to use low input/impact techniques to create without a workshop whereas my love of white smithing/jewelry making and of ceramics which were also covered in the course and thoroughly engaging and inspiring I knew that to succeed in such trying times I needed to resort to processes that were safe for my young family to be around in our home.   

Since my graduation I have been invited to be a Green Grad by the acclaimed journalist Barbara Chandler. The organisation she founded to give exposure to graduates with ecologically sound practice and a focus on environmental restoration or driving engagement into the issues facing our world's natural systems.  

Soon my work will be featured in the blue coat gallery in liverpool. my works are also on display in several public areas including trentham gardens where a giant barbary macaque can be found in their monkey forest.  My collection of pieces for my degree show are award winning including the hobbydog stool which has been featured most recently in london with the chair that followed on from it.