Jack Astbury

Woodwork arriving Spring 2025

Emma Bird studied Art at Canterbury Christ Church College, graduating with honours and receiving the University’s Summerfield Award. She loves to be creative, particularly enjoying working in wire to produce both 3D and 2D pieces.

Emma’s work celebrates the beauty of creation, the people and animals that she sees around her, as well as the interaction between them. Wire gives her the freedom to draw in the air: it is so intriguing to see the line hold its shape without losing a sense of flow and delicacy. She loves using the minimal amount of ‘lines’ to suggest the highlights of each creation and its character. She works with her hands, pliers and cutters alone to create her pieces: valuing the purity of this process and avoiding the temptation to solder or glue wires together, so that she produces truly handcrafted work. Wire adds extra depth to her 2D work, helping to bring such ‘drawings’ to life, while allowing her to explore the linear aspects of 3D forms to produce incredibly delicate sculptures.

Available Artwork

Jeni Cairns is an award winning artist and garden designer living in rural Cambridgeshire. Her work covers a wide variety of mediums and disciplines including painting, collage, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, sewing, garden design and planting.

Jeni studied general art and design at the Isle of Ely College and Fine Art at Derby University, creating large scale abstract and figurative paintings and drawings incorporating text and various materials.

"My favourite medium is oil painting on canvas and most recently plasma cutting! Collage, including vintage music paper and quirky vintage objects to give my work a sense of nostalgia and preserving something precious".

Jeni has most recently concentrated on using metal drums to carve and cut her designs.

Available Sculptures

John creates marine creatures from various sheets of metal and cuts and sculpts them into unique fish.

The metals John uses include stainless steel, brass and copper, and are normally sourced from recycled remnant pieces of metal which would normally be scrapped. The engraved fish are mounted onto lathe turned hand finished plinths, which are sourced from windfall timber tree branches.

Available Sculptures

Derek has always been interested in wildlife from a very early age, encouraged by his father who was a great countryman and spent most of his working life outdoors, he would spend most of his school holidays with him. His father would always point out different species of birds and soon Derek began to recognise their names and characteristics.

As a keen birdwatcher Derek would watch them for hours on end taking note of their individual habits, feeding, preening and their mating displays. This led to his passion for landscape and wildlife photography and again watching wildlife for long periods of time.

Derek is a qualified cabinetmaker has worked with wood since he left school and therefore a natural progression to start carving the wildlife he enjoys so much. He uses found woods mixed with other woods he has in the workshop/studio at any given time and the work is finished with acrylic paints and waxes. Derek’s carvings are what he sees and observes in the characteristics of the subject and does not emulated every detail as he likes to add his own interpretation.

Available Sculptures