Wizardry in Wood 2025
​The Master's Exhibition

It was a great honour to be invited to take part in this prestigious exhibition from The Worshipful Company of Turners in the City of London. 

My piece,  'Elements',  was made from sycamore and coloured with spirit stains. The texturing was achieved through the use of pyrography and a rotary tool, with the wider channels cut with a router in the Paul Howard Fluting Jig. 

'Elements' grew out of an earlier series of pieces  using dotted lines and colours to show various ways we connect with each other and our environment. It is a representation of air, earth, fire and water and humanity's  interaction with the natural world. It shows scars of destruction, pathways of exploration and layers of habitation; it celebrates the physical and spiritual beauty of our world and the ways that connections, relationships and balance can be achieved, thought it is fragile balance as we spin through the enormity of space, with a little wobble...

Some work in progress images, showing the stages of cutting the main shape and major texture, the addition of pyrography, and the start of the colouring process with spirit stains

The final piece with all the colouring completed, and the work with the rotary tool and pyrography finished