D is For Detail
D …as in Darren Fry…is for detail. Phone Darren for a chat and it won’t be a quick call. You’ll traverse personal histories, discuss individual aesthetics, attitudes to life, the realities (economic) of a career based on woodworking – and then there are hobbies (his) like surfing and skateboarding that balance life by revitalising the organism.
Perfectionism is a theme that often crops up. When you see the fineness and subtlety of Darren’s work in both imagery and close-up it comes as no surprise to hear him say, ‘You can’t make great things by doing average work’. When Darren makes a piece he goes beyond what is required. ‘Eighty per cent of your one hundred will
