Most of my time is engaged in designing and making one-off pieces of furniture in solid wood to commission. I reckon that straight lines are an imposition, a construct - at once all too human (in control) and yet dehumanising. Certainly I favour curves in my furniture designs.

Finding forms to express ideas without being concerned about function is a rare treat, as well as a real challenge. I love working with wood, love its textures and smells and colours and its versatility as a material. I also savour how it’s been on this planet since way before organisms like us.

Some thoughts I noted on the way to this show:

I want each piece to require touch, as well as to invite eye and imagination and memory.

Flames in a fireplace, a stream flowing around and over stones - the more you watch the more you see.

Every mound requires/makes a hollow. The one can’t be without the other. Nor can positive negative or male female or up down, and on it goes.

The balanced urgency of being wisely alive.

Flow is constant. And so is repetition.