introduction

Welcome to our newly updated website. There are many new pieces, and there are now individual pages for outdoor work, bronzes, and our last solo show with Sarah Myerscough Fine Art in London.

about us

Our sculpture is primarily in carved oak and limewood. We work collaboratively to explore the boundary between two and three dimensional form, using gouges to draw the complex shallow relief surfaces that articulate the fall of light across simple, frontal forms. We work across a range of scales from the hand-held to sculpture for the landscape. We work in series, each family of pieces being explored through a range of variations and scales, with new series evolving from current forms. We hope that our work is beautiful, but it also asks for a mindful response from the viewer. Each piece attempts to make its own statement visually, and to become part of a visual argument.

Our work is resolutely non-functional, but straddles the intersecting fields of sculpture, applied art and craft. While many pieces originate in the 'real' world - there are cups, jugs, bottles - these are likely to have been found in a modernist still-life painting or as a museum artefact. Similarly our larger sculpture is a way of 're-seeing' the tradition of the figure in sculpture, whether it be ancient, mediaeval or modernist, revisioned through our own formal language.

technical information

The work is hand carved using axe and gouges. We use English oak for its strong assertive grain, and lime-wood by contrast for the very controlled carving its blandness allows. The pieces are then transformed by techniques such as scorching, liming and coloration to create objects that are open in their meaning and in relationship to their material.

commissioned work

We recognise the importance of pieces being appropriate to their location and are happy to work to commission.

price guide

Prices range from around £250 for our smaller vessels to around £4000 for a larger sculpture. Please ask for details of pricing on individual pieces.