I have been established as a designer / maker since 1997 and work predominately with timber, offering private, corporate and public clients the unique opportunity of engaging my craft skills to produce site specific installations and furniture.
I think I have a broad knowledge of the challenges and demands both on medium and small-scale businesses in Scotland. Instrumental in establishing Buy Design Gallery in the Scottish Borders in 1997, I have been running my independent facility in Ross-Shire since 2003. Involvement in a variety of timber utilisation projects and hardwood product marketing initiatives has given me a specialised understanding of the potential for both product led and market led manufacturing business throughout Scotland.
I have also worked for Fife College of Further and Higher Education and Inverness College, both in the capacity of lecturer. This allowed an insight into the delivery of the course syllabus and confirmed the importance and positive effect of the transfer of core craft skills to the young recipients. I have been involved in further learning and product development days at all levels of secondary and tertiary education both in the classroom and workshop. I have also led material knowledge days for architects and other end users of timber.
More recently I have been involved in architect led ecolological design house builds here in the north of Scotland and with colleagues down in the Scottish Borders.
I think I have a broad knowledge of the challenges and demands both on medium and small-scale businesses in Scotland. Instrumental in establishing Buy Design Gallery in the Scottish Borders in 1997, I have been running my independent facility in Ross-Shire since 2003. Involvement in a variety of timber utilisation projects and hardwood product marketing initiatives has given me a specialised understanding of the potential for both product led and market led manufacturing business throughout Scotland.
I have also worked for Fife College of Further and Higher Education and Inverness College, both in the capacity of lecturer. This allowed an insight into the delivery of the course syllabus and confirmed the importance and positive effect of the transfer of core craft skills to the young recipients. I have been involved in further learning and product development days at all levels of secondary and tertiary education both in the classroom and workshop. I have also led material knowledge days for architects and other end users of timber.
More recently I have been involved in architect led ecolological design house builds here in the north of Scotland and with colleagues down in the Scottish Borders.