I am a British artist and craftsman working primarily with wood, drawing on a Japanese tradition of hand-tool carpentry. My practice explores the interplay between the organic and geometric, and the role of storytelling in objects and spaces.

During my studies of Psychology (BSc) I realised a desire to engage with the mind in living material (trees) and everyday objects. This began by building a bicycle from bamboo and travelling with it across Europe before hitchhiking to Asia. That journey eventually led me to Japan, where I undertook a traditional apprenticeship under master craftsman Toshio Tokunaga and learned to work with kanna, the Japanese hand plane. This tool remains central to my practice: all surfaces are formed and finished through it, allowing wood’s natural forms and textures to speak most directly.

On returning to the UK in 2017, I established a workshop near Bristol, creating diverse works of furniture and art. More recently, I graduated with distinction from the MA at the King’s School of Traditional Arts, where my research considered the Book of Kells, early English poetry, and the butsudan — a household shrine as a site of embodied memory and ritual. I was awarded the Khaled Azzam Prize for this work.

I continue to develop an embodied practice informed by research, with the hope to realise resonant works that sing for many centuries.