I am an artist and maker based on the west coast of Ireland. Having lived and worked across the globe, my work is shaped by a deep respect for traditional craftsmanship, natural materials, and sustainable processes.
Craftsmanship & Techniques
Using advanced forging techniques of the traditional bladesmith, woodcraft of a contemporary furniture maker and the scientific understanding of an environmental chemist, I craft knives that are both highly functional and sculpturally expressive. Each piece tells a story—of transformation, of heritage, and of connection to the material world.
High carbon steels are forge-welded with historical salvage; wrought iron cartwheel rims, whiskey barrel straps, antique ships anchor chains. Ergonomic handles are hewn from timbers of long-forgotten orchards, limbs of storm damaged native trees from Irish Estate Houses, or relics of buried forests found in the boglands.
‘Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.’
William Morris
I am deeply passionate about my work being used, but the tools I make don’t simply cut food, they tell stories that connect us to the lands and histories of the materials that make each blade so special.
Stories Within Materials
I draw my motivation from these stories concealed within materials, giving new life & purpose to these found & recycled resources. Each piece is not only used for aesthetic value, but the finished knife is also a culmination of careful selection of base materials, representing my evolving knowledge of metal fusion & forging.
Each blade form is dictated by precision and purpose. The selection of material is deliberate, its finish evocative. Born not of fresh-milled steel or polished timber, but of forgotten fragments—rusted machinery that once pulsed with life, wood unearthed from bogs or fallen from hedgerows, shards of the post-industrial era, and antlers aged by time and touch. These are not materials; they are memories.
Craft as Resistance
In an era consumed by disposability and mass repetition, my work stands as quiet resistance. Listening to the whispers in waste, the echoes in salvage, the potential in the cast-aside emerge objects of lasting resonance.
To make something sharp is one thing; to imbue it with care, purpose, and presence—that is the true measure of craft. These blades ask for attention. Their textures speak of journey. Their balance reveals function. Their forms provoke memory. In using them, one steps into a lineage of hands and histories, a continuum of making and meaning.
The finished article is more than the sum of its parts. It is an invitation to consider how we make, what we keep, and why we remember. It does not shout; it sharpens. And in its reflection, it offers not just tools—but nourishment for the mind.
Personal Journey
I have been many things in my life so far, I grew up working with tools from a very young age thanks to my dad, then with interests in art, the environment and nature I went to university to study environmental chemistry and spent all my free time in the art college across the road – I immersed myself in sculpture, photography, painting, film making; when I finished my degree I ended up also having a solo art show at the college gallery.
I have travelled extensively through my love of surfing and always found myself being creative in the places I’ve stayed – be that culinary arts in restaurants around the world, helping build furniture and painting a big community mural for a little family owned restaurant shack on a beach in Ecuador to building an eco-lodge with childhood friends in west Africa.
I have been a school teacher, special needs arts co-ordinator, built an outdoor education centre and developed world championship extreme sports events. My wife and I have been collaborating with fine dining and food experiences in outdoor locations and running a little restaurant in our local town.
Future Vision
We are now using our combined skills, knowledge and inspirations to develop a community-minded artisan craft and cookery school – arts studios, teaching workshops, accommodation, home grown vegetables and more; a chance to immerse in an inspiring atmosphere, to be creative, to learn, to grow.
