Tuesday 21 December 2010

Good News

As you have probably realised, we live in a small village in the mountains behind Estepona in the art village of Genalguacil (henal gua theel), which is trying its hardest to become world famous for the art work around the village, NOW HERE COMES THE GOOD NEWS, the town hall has just given me a small workshop and an outside area to work all for rent free!!
At the moment there are three of us now making things in the village workshops and the village is now building a retail shop for things that are made in the village

Tuesday 9 November 2010

How it all started

I have worked with wood from the age of 15 years, which now makes it 42 years.
I grew up in the 60s, with long hair like everybody else. The fascination with wood has never left me, both making things and finishing things, from a new born babies coffin, which was quite an eye opener for a 17 year old and I never forgotten that people die young, to refinishing the interiors of Rolls Royce.

My first professional contact with rocking horses was some 16 years ago, which was brought in to the workshops for restoration. Rather than give it to one of the restorers I decided to do it myself, which took me back to a memory of my Aunt and Uncles house and playing on an old rocking horse.

Now we live in the Spanish mountains and making rocking horses, the first rocking horse maker in Spain.

They are all made in the tradition way with an added twist. I like to paint the horses in the same colours as real horses I see out and about and with a special technique I have mastered over the years to give the horses a painted hair effect

photos of making rocking horses


Most of the work is done in the shade of a carob tree on a threshing circle, which has been used as a working area for hundreds of years

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