furniture from natureby Grant Sonnex

It’s been a week of arrivals and unexpected help.  Birds from Africa, bats from hibernation, carpenters from Tasmania, and machine tools from Milton Keynes.

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Here’s something a bit different!  In early July I’m co-running a short course here in St Davids for design professionals who need a chance to sidestep the inevitable creative ruts.

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the first post

This was the week that the internal walls of the new workshop went up – timber uprights (studs) and horizontal spacers (noggins – my word of the moment, to be used on every possible occasion).  This framework will  be insulated and clad in plywood, and, as with my furniture, I wanted to make sure that the timber was high quality and came from sustainable sources.

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… well, that’s the dream: a place where the wood is stored in the ideal conditions and the furniture constructed in an environment that is as close as practical to a domestic home.  Continue reading →

Easter has seen a new beginning. Continue reading →

2013 sees the planned move to live and work in the landscape that has become my muse. Continue reading →

delighted to have my work in the British Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Nature in Art Gallery near Gloucester, UK,  13 Nov – 16 Dec. Continue reading →

Here is the collection of sculptural lights and tables inspired by the tiny marine world inside a hole in a large boulder at Caer Bwdy Bay near St Davids in Pembrokeshire.

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This August at the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen Summer Show I’m exhibiting a new collection of  lights and side tables inspired by the tiny world of a rock pool that I found burrowed into a huge boulder at Caer Bwdy Bay in Pembrokeshire. Continue reading →

A video about the Land, Sea and Light project – a collection of fine furniture inspired by the St Davids peninsula in Pembrokeshire.

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