Back in the late 1990s, when wood-sculpting artists, and married couple, Malcolm Martin and Gaynor Dowling first started working together, they each brought specific and complementary skills to the table. Malcolm was fine-art trained and had made sculptures in various materials before finally settling on wood. Gaynor had trained in textiles and at the time was creating fine-art felting: surface pattern and texture were her thing.
Having met a year or two earlier on the West Country exhibition circuit, theirs was a fortuitous encounter, both romantically and professionally. Their
