Elegant Ash Plum
In the Bellsquarry Wood, the Woodland Trust has felled several Ash trees to stop the die back disease. The foresters had conveniently cut this tree into lengths and left them lying around to decompose. I retrieved a large piece a few days later. This is a one piece vase hollowed form the trunk of a the tree.
Small Hollow form
Formed from the branch of an Ash tree. Foresters, trying to prevent the spread of the Ash Dieback disease from spreading through Scotland, brought down this tree which stood close to a river that forms part of the Murieston trail in West Lothian. This vase was created by turning 2 bowls and combining them with the addition of a sea shell and aluminium inlaid band