Craft

My workshop is entirely of my own making; every bench, shelf, and fitting hand-built or altered to suit a purpose. My woodwork bench, machining bench, electronics bench, and my computer desk shaped ergonomically and finished with French polish share a space engineered for efficiency. A post and stile door finished in shop colours and two sets of full-length curtains made to measure speak to the same principle I hold dear: if it is worth making, it is worth making well.

Beyond the workshop I have fitted my wife's study with a desk hewn from local Dartmoor redwood, hung the door and built matching shelving throughout this room and the spare room. A tool shed and wood shed, along with a custom composting setup, complete the picture outside.

Textiles are an equal pursuit. My current long-term passion project is hand-stitching, embroidering, lacing and cobbling a full Henrician costume for my wife; an ongoing work of quite some daunting ambition.

In the garden, craft meets stewardship: a traditional native hedge and a wildflower meadow reflect the same care for natural materials and long-term thinking that I try to apply to everything I makes. The kitchen continues this theme with bread, pitta, muffins, cheese, and beer all made by hand, from scratch.

The animating principle across all of it is simple: natural materials, traditional methods, built once, built well.