Artist of the month
'Origin has provided me with a new opportunity to reach a wider audience and things went well with funding to assist travel getting there and accommodation whilst in London.
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With a wide range of furniture objects and effects, most pieces were eventually were picked out as favourite to someone, from shapely cleft oak seats to brightly coloured table tops. My background in painting and sculpture often surfaces when colouring wood, carving and playing with the individual shapes of cleft oak. |
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Earning a living from Artwork has not been a priority for most of my 30 years working in Scotland. This admission has only been made possible by skills developed in the specialised trade repairing and building oak timber frame buildings. This work has taken me to the South of England and once to America for periods typically of 2-3 months in a year. |
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However things have changed recently and my commitments now in furniture are full-time. It would not be possible to disappear south over winter and return with the swallows for a spring and summer exploring new ideas back in the Borders.
Between commissions I try and find time to develop my own work interests now in wood.
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This is very important to me and I would rather go part-time again than be booked-out with commissions that repeat what I’ve already achieved. So exhibitions and opportunities such as Origin are important events to continue showing and hopefully sell new work.'
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