Most of my work comes from my own inspiration and the challenge of designing pieces specifically to suit individual patron’s needs and vision.
My aim is to create lightness of form with proportions and finish to expose the true grain and nature of the timber from which it is created; and to produce furniture that has functional integrity while pleasing to the eye and smooth to the touch. My furniture ranges from large colonial dressers, hall cabinets, beds and bookcases to kitchen, living room and reading tables as well as small boxes, servers and spoons, verandah and garden sculptural seats.
Influenced by the tradition of 19th and 20th Century Australian and American country furniture (in particular the austere Shaker style of simple purity of line and an honesty to materials) my wood-working skills have grown and developed through wide reading and practice based learning, both mentored and encouraged by Frank Watters and Julia Mullins Imrie.
