Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The mushroom bowl was inspired by the shape from a branch left behind at the Thrip-mere car park area in the Pentland Hills. Having turned the log I believe it came from a silver birch tree.  The exterior shape and colouring came from the Mushroom / toad stools  scattered around the area. The interior wood is a palish colour with some spalted spots   

Turned from a limb of a Hawthorne tree taken down by foresters to clear a path for a larger tree to fall on the banks of the Murieston Water in West Lothian. The bowl features a band of Titan green sea shells and green soap stone which I feel will give it a definite presence in home.

This bowl is from a Mature Birch tree and has beautiful makings. I was given this log from a friend who thought it was only fit forfire wood.  The inlay on the rim is made from Titan green sea snail shells which brings another decorative edge to bowl.

Attractive Spalted Sycamore, with inlaid crushed Amethyst makes this a beautiful decorative art peace. The tree formed part of a number of Sycamores that were cleared from a building site near to Weems  in the Kingdom of Fife.

A beautiful piece of Elm. I Purchased it from a sawmill and furniture maker near Auchengray, a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The tree had been cut down in the 1990s to help try and prevent the spread of Dutch Elm disease. The bowl rim has been enhanced with copper and sea shells and will make a wonderful fruit bowl.

Iroko is an African wood, This piece was given to me a by friend, a Joiner, who found it in a roof space many years ago. He had kept it thinking he would find a use for it. It was originally part a 4” thick roof joist which meant this vessel had to be turned in 2 parts, the bowl and then the pedestal base. I don’t think he ever expected it to become a special fruit bowl.