Chelsea Flower Show 2019

May 22, 2019

We have been delighted to be invited by the RHS to attend the Chelsea Flower Show this year taking one of their coveted 'Artisan Studios.  We will be creating a very special garden with our friend and collaborator, garden designer and writer Tom Attwood whose nursery which he runs with his wife Abi (it's called 'Abi and Tom's Garden Plants') is like a show garden in itself! We are over the moon with how the studio and garden has turned out, we will be posting images on Instagram

10 Years in the Making!

Nov 10, 2016

We recently got interviewed for lifestyle magazine Hot Brands Cool Places who pointed out we have been at this for 10 years!...  '...so Charlie, what were the highlights?' ...  'There is a time in the workshop after all the initial design work is done and the making is underway, when you find out what a piece of work is really like and how it feels.    Sometimes it is a bit of surprise, and you leave the workshop feeling really happy, like a scientist who has made a new discovery.  We got this

Pictures from Japan

Nov 09, 2016

Work we sent to Kyushu Island, Japan earlier this year have been installed.  We sent a total of 80 individual steam bent artworks, some parts were still in transit during the terrible earthquake, but now all together and finished in the newly refurbished Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort. The sculptures are all steam-bent Ash, each one unique, made using our own special free-bending technique and designed individually by Charlie Whinney.  The sculptures started life as an Ash tree from a local