I have been designing and making furniture for exhibition and for domestic and public spaces for over 25 years, working with Australian and international clients, combining traditional and innovative making techniques with contemporary design.

I use Australian timbers sourced from sustainably managed resources, with a special interest in small sections of timber and minimal forms, and with experimental techniques using plantation timbers. I have exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Canada, and my work is in homes and private collections around the world.

I approach designing and making as a sensuous collaboration with both material and process. Working with wood resonates deeply with very old human traditions across most cultures. It can be approached as a  process of feeling, reading, listening and responding to the vast life story of a tree within its interconnected community of biotic and geophysical relationships across time frames. For me, wood is an emplaced life story, a view into the past, present and future of the more than human community. This understanding means that I grant considerable agency to material and to process.