Tutor Profiles
About
Geoff Hannis
Geoff (@geoffhannis) has always been fascinated with working wood, however it wasn’t until 2018 that he discovered the joy of working green wood through the Cherry Wood Project and the Somerset Bodgers at Tyntesfield House. Having learnt from some of the best craftspeople in the country.
Geoff offers courses in both spindle turning and bowl turning.
About
Celi McCutcheon
Celi (@grownandmadewoodcraft) has been working with green wood for 11 years including completing an apprenticeship in woodland management and teaching green woodworking at the Cherry Wood Project near Bath. They are focused on making small useful items on the poles lathe, but is all about the connection between trees and the end product and enjoys all areas of woodland crafts and woodland management. They are a member of the craft council and the heritage craft association. You can read more about her work on her website.
They teach the stool making workshop.
About
Flo Hamer
Flo (@flohamer ) is a traditional craftswoman specialising in green woodworking, bowl turning and basketry. She loves working with natural materials using traditional techniques. Having discovered her love for pole lathe bowl turning for four years she now takes great pride in being able to introduce this wonderful craft to new people.
Flo has a background in carpentry and timber framing, after completing a natural building course she went on to build she own ‘tiny house on wheels’. Over the last few years Flo has been working with basket maker Annemarie O’Sullivan, and Windsor chair maker Jason Mosseri. She has recently been awarded funding from the Worshipful Company of Turners and has been forging new sets of turning hook tools, for teaching.
She teaches the willow and hazel basketry courses. You can read more about her work on her website.
About
Rosie Mockford
Rosie Mockford (@rosie.joy.maker ) is a spoon carver from Gloucestershire. Rosie loves how accessible spoon carving is – needing just a few simple tools – and is passionate about sharing green woodworking. She teaches woodland wellbeing, skills and crafts for the Cotswolds Natural Landscape (@aonbcotswolds) and Miserden Gardens (@miserden). She also help to organise the Gloucestershire & friends Spoon Club. She is at her happiest when out in nature sharing skills!
She teaches the beginner spoon carving courses. You can read more about her work on her website.
About
Pete Lloyd
Pete Lloyd (@feralpete ) has extensive experience of wood-carving and tool-making. Part of the original Barton Hill greenwoodworking group, he has been carving spoons, kuksas and bowls for many years. As a recent assistant to Nic Westermann & Hewn & Hone in Wales he spent many months tool & jig making, including grinding and sharpening tools to the correct angles.
He teaches the kuksa, sharpening and bird bowl and wood decoration courses.
About
Jane Robertson
Jane (@janejay.tanner ) is a traditional hide tanner based in North Wales. She is originally from Bristol area and has now moved to live in a wilder place.
She’s been studying and practising hide tanning for 10 years, including learning in North America, Sweden and Norway. She runs a small tannery producing local lamb skins and deer skins, which are mostly turned into shoes! Jane enjoys teaching and sharing this craft, as a connection to our human history and shared ancestry.
One half of Oak and Smoke Tannery (@oak.and.smoke.tannery ), you can read more about their work on their website.
