A N I M A L S
Most of my work is attached to furniture so I don't often get asked to make whole animals, but once in a while … and I relish the challenge when it comes. Getting a creature to join up all the way around is every bit as tricky as it looks.

Here's a selection of some that I've particularly enjoyed:
The collie, giraffe and the penguins have all been presents for my wife; the duck, owl and woodpecker are watching over the walled garden at Gleneagles Hotel along with the little snails; the fat frog on my stair case is one of the first things I ever carved … and poor old mrPuffin... after 10 years of gazing out to sea from a verandah on the Isle of Coll and being battered by the Hebridean
weather? Well he can't take any more surgery and his duties have been
taken over by a younger sentinel.