Thursday, 28 March 2013

Visiting Joachim Seitfudem's 'Zeitgeist' exhibition: a contemporary twist from a background of traditional Bavarian woodcarving

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Today I visited an exhibition at a small pop-up gallery on College Green in Bristol called 'Zeitgeist'. The exhibitor, Joachim Seit...

The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) March 2013

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All of these images were taken on the Reykjanes Penninsula, in South-western Iceland, by Sandra Cook. Images copy...
Sunday, 24 March 2013

Woods and Woodcarving in Iceland - a bit of history and a meeting with Jón Adólf Steinólfsson, Icelandic carver

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Before the Vikings came to Iceland, it is thought to have had no permanent settlement (apart from the occasional visit by Irish monks lookin...

DesignMarch festival of design in Reykjavik

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Iceland has a lot of very talented designers and we were lucky to visit Reykjavik during the 'DesignMarch' festival of Icelandic de...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Icelandic street art...Reykjavik

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Wandering around Reykjavik, I noticed some great street art about. There has even been a book, called 'Icepick', written about the I...
Friday, 8 March 2013

Wooden stamps for Steve Carter of Saint Werburghs Pottery, to use for embossing ceramics

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I've just finished some stamps for a friend of mine, who will use them to emboss designs into clay.  Steve Carter is a very experience...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Building a strawbale urinal at Boiling Wells in St Werburghs

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The sun came out yesterday and the temperate reached double figures (hurray!), so it was time to get things moving at the St Werburghs City ...