I have recently embarked on wood sculpture.

This is something that had been in my mind for some time, and having retired I had more time to spend on it, there was the opportunity to start. I'd been motivated by my colleague Frans Hilgers who has been sculpting for many years with stone and more lately wood in Overveen, Holland. Like myself Frans is trained in head and neck surgery, and he made me realise that with our surgical training of thinking 3-dimensionally, its a natural art form for us.

The first stage was to clean up my workshop, and get some new tools. My dear wife was kind enough to move her car into the carport to allow me more space.

I had some very good advice from Blair Logan, regarding the Arbortech range of wood sculpting tools, and I found some promising woods at the Timber Recycling centre in Taupo.

After working in the garage for about a year, we were planning a special trip to celebrate our 40 wedding anniversary, when Covid hit us. All plans were put on hold and we decided to upgrade  the carport attached to the garage. This involved a new garage door, and the open side was replaced by a unit of aluminium cabinetry with double glazing windows and door fitted. After moving in my newly acquired tools, and getting some more I had a new studio.