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The first time of placing gouge on timber conjured a very visceral response – a feeling of being home. This, however, happened some 25 years ago, during years living in New Zealand, eleven and a half thousand miles away from home.
The immediacy and spontaneity of shaping timber on a lathe became such a joy and so captivating; the relationship with the timber, process and the lathe never failed to create inner peace.
My early work was driven by a desire to perfect technique. Consequently, this created a diverse range of work and skills. Latterly, my work is more considered, but never loosing that sense of humour I impart to some of my work.
Woodturning and designing on the lathe with its creative possibilities continue to enthral and my fascination with the medium keeps me driven to find the perfect curve; for some artists the process is not important. For me however, it is one part of the whole. Whatever I create, the search for perfect form and sensuous curve is paramount.
Ed Oliver RPT – Woodturner & Founder of Olivers Woodturning
Ed Oliver is a Registered Professional Turner (RPT) with a passion for woodturning rooted in both tradition and lifelong curiosity. Although his first taste of turning came in 1972 during his apprenticeship as a furniture maker, it wasn’t until 2013—thanks to a two-day woodturning course gifted by his wife Karen—that he truly rediscovered the craft. From that moment, he treated woodturning as a new apprenticeship, dedicating over 12,000 hours at the lathe to mastering the art.
Ed refined his skills under the guidance of Tom Pockley, and later trained with world-renowned turners including Nick Agar, Mark Sanger, Stuart Mortimer, and Joey Richardson. His work spans hollow forms, bowls, decorative and artistic pieces, and he is equally known for his enthusiasm for teaching and demonstrating—both in person and online.
As the founder of Olivers Woodturning, Ed supplies quality tools and materials to fellow turners across the UK. Through his website, YouTube channel, and hands-on sessions, he shares not just techniques, but a deep love for the craft of woodturning.
Chris has been a professional woodworker for 55 years, 50 of them self-employed. From his workshop within the Dartmoor National Park he creates functional, decorative and architectural turned work. He also offers tuition to individuals and small groups, and gives demonstrations at craft events and to woodworking clubs and interested groups. Combining uncomplicated balanced form with natural features, as well as the effects of fungal and insect activity, he finds that the most unlikely looking pieces of wood often produce the most striking end results. His work essentially celebrates the imperfections in wood as features of a beautiful natural material, rather than as defects. The timber he uses is sourced as locally as possible to his Dartmoor workshop. The majority of wood comes from trees that have fallen, been cut down due to damage or disease, or from licenced conservation pruning and felling. Any exotic species used will be either recycled or from sustainable FSC sources. There are examples of his work in 17 countries, on 4 continents, and he exhibits widely in galleries, exhibitions and craft events. He has a permanent gallery display area at his workshop, which you are welcome to view by appointment.
Dave Dalby is a production turner based in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire.
”I’ve been turning since I was thirteen and turned professional at the age of eighteen. We now run a small company and use modern production methods as well as traditional hand turning, depending entirely on the clients needs. I concentrate on the smaller quantity production runs and high spec one-off commissions such as large table bases, pattern making and prototype work.
Dave has a wealth of experience in the woodturning field and undertakes a variety of work from one off finials to huge batches of table legs for the furniture industry.
”We make anything round out of wood, from one to one thousand”
Dave is keen to share his knowledge of the craft with the woodturning world and encourage new people into this wonderful profession.
Following my Fine Arts Degree, I worked at the National Theatre in the Prop Making Department for 27 years and was the main woodturner. This meant I combined my Fine Arts skills with all manor of crafts and problem solving; for example making a 7 metre table with 9” square section turned legs for Richard 3rd, which had to survive being violently thrown over by Sir Ian McKellen every night in order to form a defensive battlement! I made an exceptional barber’s chair for the production of Sweeney Todd for which I had to make a welded metal frame clad with a very complicated series of split turnings to disguise the mechanism.
Following my Theatre career I now do individual commissions from small runs of production work such as furniture legs and decorations etc. I am also a Potter and turn items in wood to compliment this work, such as wooden lids for the caddies I make.
Please feel free to contact me via my email address, commissions are welcome.
I served in Her Majesty’s Grenadier Guards Band from the age of 15 to 25 traveling the world and making lots of noise as a tuba player. For the next couple of years I tried working in a hospital and training as a driving instructor. I then then found my true vocation when I worked for a builder friend who trained me up as a General builder at the age of 27 and I have been running my own business until the present time. I started woodturning in 2010 and found it an easy change. My practical use of timber and carpentry tools and my attention to detail from my Army days where a great help to me. I was encouraged by club members to demonstrate to my woodturning club in 2017 and finaly started demonstrating to other clubs in February 2019. I like to demonstrate things that are different to the normal things that you see and add a little fun at the same time. I also love meeting with other turners and often find that I learn as much from them as they do from me. I have had some success with turning for competition and love to make things that are out of the usual, often not knowing if they are even possible.
Darren works from his premises in Lowestoft’s historic High Street in Suffolk, a stones throw from the UK’s most easterly point. His shop offers a wide range of tools and finishes, some timber and a selection of his own work alongside works by a select few other turners. He is on the demonstrator circuit, both in-person or via IRD’s, and offers 1 to 1 tuition from complete beginners to the more experienced. He has 3 lathes in the workshop, a VB36, a Wadkin RS8, and a Magma 175FU so can cater for most requirements. His passion is for large scale turned, coloured and textured wall hangings, but also turns everything and anything. He is building up a reputation of being the ‘go to man’ in the town, for anything turned, alongside commission work, furniture repairs and restoration, and with years of experience in building and engineering, what he cannot do he knows someone who can. He was recently commissioned to make a Ceremonial Mace for the University of Suffolk with a bespoke display cabinet, and has designed and created various commemorative plaques and other items for the local councils.
I’ve always enjoyed working with wood and I first took up woodturning in 2013 as what I called my “retirement hobby” to ensure that I would have something to occupy myself in my retirement. I retired in 2016 after working for 30 years in the Oil and Gas Industry, the last 20 of which I lived near Aberdeen. Once I had retired we moved back down to my home county of Yorkshire and I now live near Huddersfield where woodturning has become a regular aspect of my daily life.
I am an AWGB Approved Tutor, a member of The Heritage Craft Association and a Trustee and Committee member of the Huddersfield and District Woodturners.
I am currently specialising in Basket Illusion Bowls and Coloured and Lacquered Hollow Forms although I turn a large variety of other items that I sell. I get a lot of enjoyment from learning new skills and creating something that I have not done before.
I started demonstrating to local woodturning clubs in 2022 and I’m currently developing that aspect of my portfolio.
Working with wood and woodturning has always been an important part of my life and although it was not my main career it remained an integral part of my leisure time and I took every chance to increase my skills. In 2001 I decided to immerse myself in woodturning as a full time business. The woods I use are almost entirely from recycled and sustainable sources. Some have been rescued from the log pile or from local orchards, farms and gardens. Inspired by organic forms and natural surroundings I allow the beauty of the wood to suggest the shape and purpose of the piece. I take commissions for special items and offer 1 to 1 tuition at my workshop in Long Sutton, Nr Langport, Somerset. I am a Registered Professional Turner, a member of The Somerset Guild of Craftsmen and the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain.
I remember being in my Uncle’s workshop, I was around 8 years old, clamping a drill into a vice with a small piece of wood in the chuck, sharpening a screwdriver on a grinder and turning finials…… You’ll be please to know my methods have improved! Ever since that day, I’ve been fascinated with wood. Wood is tactile. It smells good. It looks good. It feels good. It’s amazing what you can do with a beautifully grained piece of wood – turning it into masterpiece that can sit proudly in your home. In 2010 I started to take my turning more seriously and undertook extensive formal training with world-renowned turners and in 2015 I decided to have a change of lifestyle and career from Civil Engineering to full-time Woodturner. I opened a purpose built workshop and now, my greatest pleasure is keeping the craft of woodturning alive – both through my own projects and through teaching others how to turn, passing on my knowledge and enthusiasm. I’m a fully qualified woodturning tutor, trained and certified by the AWGB, of which, I’m also the regional representative for Scotland. I’ve always loved design, having an eye for what looks good and why, and I bring this to every woodturning project I do. I’ve been very fortunate over the years to spend a lot of time training with world class turner Tracy Owen and with Master Turner Stuart Mortimer. My work is varied, covering most styles of turning, from functional items such as bowls, platters and pens, to decorative and artwork including hollow forms, goblets, boxes and spiral work. I enjoy working with texture, colour and sandblasting, sometimes combining some or all of these. I’m very fortunate to be able to follow a passion I love and work from home, family life is very important to me and having this balance is truly amazing.
Pete Osborn taught Woodwork in various schools in the North West of England for over 30 years. Since retiring from teaching he has concentrated on Woodturning. He uses quite a lot of local hardwood from trees that have fallen in gales and other timbers that are used are either reclaimed or from sustainable sources. The items he makes are sometimes useful (e.g. fruit bowls) or sometimes ornamental (e.g. goblets), but all are finished to a high standard using the best quality polishes, oils and waxes.
He is currently Chairman of the Eden Valley Woodturners group and an active committee member with the Cumbria Woodturners Association.
I have been turning now for 12 years and it has become a passion of mine.
How I started turning came when I was offered the opportunity to buy our local school lathe, the one I had used at the school many years ago. Well I jumped at the opportunity to purchase it and I have never looked back since !
I am self taught and have learned through my mistakes rightly or wrongly so. I am now a member of two local clubs which I attend whenever possible. I suppose I am the same as everyone else starting away with smaller items such as pens etc and progressing to larger and more intricate pieces. I do a lot of wet turning and then reintroduce the items back onto the lathe to turn and finish.
I am a big fan of Stuart Mortimer and love to try and mirror the type of pieces that he is famous for. Lately I have been experimenting turning platters at 7 different centres and was quite pleased at the outcome. I have also been making large segmented Christmas Trees standing 5ft tall that have been popular with my clientele. One of the other things that I like making is anything that is left looking natural as possible once finished. I have undertaken a few demonstrations at my local clubs and this is something that I would like to expand on.
I am also a qualified AWGB INSTRUCTOR and I do teaching from within my workshop. This is something that is growing in popularity .
My career in woodturning started in 1986 after leaving engineering. I spent many years attending craft fairs. A major change happened when I moved into a craft workshop with my wife Wendy who is a glass artist. I was accepted onto the Register in 2006 this was a very proud moment for me. I like to work with native timber, mostly from tree surgeons; this allows me to choose the way it’s converted to obtain the best figuring. My work ranges from utility ware to works of art. I produce small to large items which I sell in my shop. In 2010 I was commissioned to make the trophies for the UCI world mounting bike event at Dalby Forest North Yorkshire. Since 2008 I have demonstrated at the Harrogate Woodworking Show. I have run courses in my workshop since 2006. I enjoy passing on my skills and knowledge to new students. These are run one to one unless you would like to bring a friend. Online courses and IRDs Demonstrations are available ask for details. https://greenwoodcrafts.co.uk/ird-by-philip-greenwood/ I was Vice-Chairman of the RPT for 4 years until I stepped down in 2020
Began turning in 1990 with ornamental pieces, added production hand turning in 1993. Predominantly do ecclesiastical and restoration work now, but happy to look at a range of turned requirements from one offs to small and large production runs. Can incorporate e.g. fluted sections to turned pieces, working from your designs, or can offer a design and produce service in a range of timbers with a maximum spindle length of 2.4m and faceplate work of up to 0.6m diameter. Relocated to Thornhill Scotland in late 2023.
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My woodturning journey started when I was in my early teens around the year 2000. After leaving school in 2002 I studied furniture making and restoration, whilst working part time in a Woodturning supply shop. I then took a hiatus and went into education and worked in a school. Coming back to woodturning in 2014 when I set up Taylors Mirfield.
5 years ago I went full time with my little shop and, as they say, have never looked back!
In 2020 I was accepted onto the Register of Professional Turners.
I now offer a broad range of pen turning and woodturning supplies as well as offering tutoring within our purpose build classroom, and now demo’s.
Richard is a production turner based in Leicestershire. His background is in woodworking, coming from a long line of professional woodworkers.
It is the variety of work that he enjoys, undertaking commissions for one-off prototypes to large production runs, turning for furniture makers, restorers, architects, designers and joiners.
His work is mainly based in the UK, but his growing reputation for making the highest quality turned work has earned him commissions for items that have gone to the US, Canada and Australia.
Richard is a well known and popular demonstrator, having written for Woodturning Magazine for more than 10 years and demonstrated all over the UK, Ireland and USA.
I am a professional Woodturner based in a little village called Ahoghill near ballymena in Co Antrim, I started my journey into woodturning in 1986 doing mainly production work for the joinery and Cabnet making trades. At this time I was running my turning businesses part time alongside my employment as a joiner.
I set up my current workshop in 1989 and am very happy working in it, when my employment came to an end a few years back I decided that it was time to give woodturning my all and went full time.
I now make a very wide range of products for a very wide range of customers from joinery firms to bespoke retail shops to sculptural architects etc
My work (via my etsy shop and other contacts) has travelled all over the world.
I also have demonstrated widely over the island and also in England.
Les left a career in special needs teaching in January 2015, to pursue a life-long interest in working with wood, by developing his hobby of woodturning, which he had commenced just 2 years earlier. He is based in the town of Bala, in the Eryri National Park (formerly known as Snowdonia) where he has his principal workshop and where he sources most of his raw materials. Whilst he is content to make functional, utilitarian pieces, Les prefers to work with storm-damaged and weathered timber, incorporating materials such as leather, copper, silver and semi-precious stones into his work. Les’s work has been included in both the on-line gallery and in the printed newsletter of the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain, and he has had the honour of having more than 30 of his more artistic pieces declared ‘Woodturning of the Week’ by an international woodturners’ web-site. and his work has been exhibited in galleries and arts centres throughout north Wales and in London. In March of 2015, upon setting up his business, Les set himself the goal of developing his wood-turning skills to a sufficiently high level to be accepted onto the Register of Professional Turners, and he gained this accolade in February 2016, becoming one of only four registered woodturners then working in Wales. With a first-class honours degree in Education and Training, and with years of experience in adult education, a natural progression of Les’s work was the tutoring that he commenced in 2017 and which has since become a major element in his woodturning business. Since 2018 Les has been a regular feature writer and four-times Guest Editor for the world-famous “Woodturning” magazine, which is published by The Guild of Master Craftsmen – GMC Publications. Primarily Les writes articles of a practical, project-based nature, but also occasionally articles of technical content. Now semi-retired, Les still teaches and writes for GMC Publications. He continues to make a small amount of turned work for resale, and this can be viewed at an artists’ cooperative gallery in the name of Celf Aran Arts, in Dolgellau, where Les is a full-time member of the cooperative and where he stewards the gallery a few days each month.
Robert at Kraftinwood has a spacious fully equipped workshop including a VB36 as well as two other lathes, a 181″ bandsaw and a fully ducted cyclone dust extraction system as well as many tools and cutters ~ up to 2 metres+ in length !!. Robert teaches wood turning to beginners through to seasoned turners wishing to enhance their skills and try out various techniques and aspire to learn about creative design rather than just turning wood. Robert also stocks turning blanks, Hamlet and Hope tools. Kraft Village also has a large contemporary Public Art gallery of various artists work in a range of mixed mediums, here you will normally see over 500 of Roberts exquisite turned and carved pieces on display and for sale. You will also at Kraft Village Chair Making Museum CIC usually see Robert giving a guided tour which includes everything about the wonderful Heritage of chair making in the area including a demonstration on the shave horse, pole and treadle lathes of how the Bodgers made the round parts to produce 4,700 Windsor chairs a day !!! (at its peak in 1875).
I enjoy the whole process of making each piece, it is what being a maker is all about. Yes, I love the feeling of completion but it’s the journey too. My degree is 3Dimensional Art & Design, wood, metal & plastics. On year 2 of my course i started sticking materials together, this is where I developed my ideas of lamination, but it was when I discovered the coloured veneers that the fun of turning began for me. From the sketch book, pencils and paints, the idea develops, then the prototype, the stripes. Making up my laminated blocks using wood, veneers and glue, it all looks pretty messy until it goes on the lathe and I begin to turn the piece, then I stop the lathe and there are the stripes, so crisp and bright, it’s a great feeling! I make many functional pieces using my laminated blocks of wood. Each design has it’s own configuration of lines and they all have stripes somewhere; Bowls, lidded pots, hollow pots with striped finials. Functional items; corkscrews and bottle stoppers, cheese and butter knifes, cheese boards, salt and pepper mills. And to wear; necklaces, earrings, cufflinks. I make items to order and by commission. To see more work please visit: carlynlindsay.co.uk
Woodturner, author and tutor based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. I like to incorporate colour in some of what I do and over the years have tried a wide variety of techniques and surface decorations. Courses take place in my workshop in the Forest of Dean. More information can be found on my “Woodturning for Woodturners” website. I sell my work through exhibitions, galleries and direct on my website. I also undertake commissions and commercial orders.
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I enjoy the whole process of making each piece, it is what being a maker is all about. Yes, I love the feeling of completion but it’s the journey too. My degree is 3Dimensional Art & Design, wood, metal & plastics. On year 2 of my course i started sticking materials together, this is where I developed my ideas of lamination, but it was when I discovered the coloured veneers that the fun of turning began for me. From the sketch book, pencils and paints, the idea develops, then the prototype, the stripes. Making up my laminated blocks using wood, veneers and glue, it all looks pretty messy until it goes on the lathe and I begin to turn the piece, then I stop the lathe and there are the stripes, so crisp and bright, it’s a great feeling! I make many functional pieces using my laminated blocks of wood. Each design has it’s own configuration of lines and they all have stripes somewhere; Bowls, lidded pots, hollow pots with striped finials. Functional items; corkscrews and bottle stoppers, cheese and butter knifes, cheese boards, salt and pepper mills. And to wear; necklaces, earrings, cufflinks. I make items to order and by commission. To see more work please visit: carlynlindsay.co.uk
