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'Rocking' bowls. These are great fun. Michael turns these round bottoms bowl with a slight weight and with the shaping of the base so they will happily rock on the spot. They are also great to hold in the palm of your hand (an offering bowl). Michael often makes these...

Mace Head turned from Zabrano. These incredible Mace heads (stone) are found in Neolithic dig sites here in Orkney. Michael has chosen Zabrano for his wooden inspired Mace Head as the grain of the wood depicts the patterns found in some of the stone originals....

This beautiful wall plaque has been made for a customer to go on an original stone wall in an old mill here in Orkney. The couple have bought the mill as an empty shell and are sympathetically restoring it to be their future home. Presently living in Derbyshire they...

A new range of pots. The bowl is ebonised after being turned and then finished with oil. The ebonising also exaggerates the grain of the timber making the it even more tactile. Michael then adds a boxwood amulet with pyrography detail attached using red leather...

This piece was created using several of the techniques Michael uses. We have called it '4 points'. It was exhibited at The Pier Arts Centre and now has been purchased for a private collection. The bowl is turned from olive ash 90mm x 480mm∅. On the rim there is inlaid...

Michael usually turns these pieces inspired by 'Neolithic Petrospheres' from English boxwood as this is a very dense, hard wood which gives a extremely smooth, tactile finish. A little stand is turned to keep the petrosphere on (in this case from Raspberry Jam wood)....

 A lidded pot turned from elm, with burr and natural edge. The pot has been carved, ebonized and stained with red to give it an aged look. The inside of the bowl has been left natural showing the grain and burr of the elm. The lid finial is turned from Tagua nut...

A bowl turned from Orkney sycamore and decorated in Neolithic Unstan ware style. Neolithic pottery and stone carvings have been a great inspiration to Michael and his range of pieces inspired by these finds has developed and expanded. As well as decorating this bowl...

A Yarn bowl turned from Elm. This was a commission piece and the second yarn bowl Michael has made. Last year he made a double hook oak bowl for a customer in Canada. It worked really well and she is more than happy with it, so when asked to do a single one he agreed....

A little 'potion pot'. Michael quite often turns these little threaded pots from either exotic woods or stabilised hard woods. They vary in shapes and sizes, but are always hand threaded.  This one is made from Blackwood with a Tagua nut lid. Once finished the piece...