Carving a future

Ambrose Vevers nostalgically recalls spending hours as a child happily playing in the small woodland that his family owns on the edge of Devon’s wild and beautiful Dartmoor National Park, and which now provides the raw material for his craft. Where once he may have practised balancing on old windfall trees, these days he rescues them to live on in his skilfully made pieces that celebrate and pay homage to the enduring beauty of the timber.

‘Sourcing my wood in this way is very rewarding – knowing where it has come