Peter Boyce-Tomkins
Peter has been working with wood for over fifty years and derives great satisfaction from transforming a plain plank into something of grace and beauty.
He has also spent a similar amount of time sailing and because of this, was commissioned to make a memorial trophy in the form of a sail.
This was the inspiration for Peter to start producing work based on the various sail shapes seen in the gallery.
Whenever possible, wood from a known source is used, such as the oak that had been in a Somerset church bell tower for over 600 years or another piece of oak that had stood on Cape Cornwall for over 60 years as a bench. However, more is sourced from hardwood timber merchants.