I am a woodworker with a love of creating new and beautiful things, and my home in County Mayo is just the place to create them. 

The wood comes from trees that have fallen near my home and is then given a new life as hand carved spoons and bowls turned on my pole-lathe.  I endevour to create a connection with the material I work with.  From felling the tree, to splitting the logs, shaping with a hand axe then carving with knives.  The feel of the material in my hands allows me to feel the object as it grows.

I work with 'Green' wood.  This is straight from the tree rather than seasoned wood.  It is still 'moving' as it begins to dry so I work with the grain rather than trying to force what I want on it.  It is a truely organic process.

For many years in the UK I worked in woodland coppice.  This is a traditional way of managing woodlands dating back thousands of years.  It is a privilage to be a part of a living environment like a woodland, with each visit seeing things anew, and becoming a part of something that stretches back and, hopefully, forward in time too.