I am lucky to live in Cornwall, a beautiful county in the South West of the UK. Surrounded by woodland, I work mainly with local wood from dead or dying trees, working with the wood to give it new form.  

I am an approved AWGB (Association of Woodturners of Great Britain) tutor, but originally trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and am particularly interested in the sculptural elements of turned pieces. This relates to my interest in the connections between internal and external landscapes. Between the representations of space, line, form, and interpersonal relationships that we carry within us, and our experience, perceptions and actions in the world in which we live. In how this can then be expressed in the experience of resonance or dissonance - in the sense of fit or wrongness. At one level, an intuitive knowing that a line or the shape of a form feels in some way familiar and in some way right, or indeed wrong. Woodturning for me is about how we may bring something from our internal landscape, complete with all of its character and imperfections, into a tangible external form that can be shared, and that may just be recognised and resonate with others. For me it is also as much about absence as presence, about what is missing, what is taken away, as about what remains. 
Maybe some of this finds expression in some of my work. 

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