No regular shop, but you can find me at various festivals, faires, street markets, and similar events. Just check the Whens & Wheres page or the Coming Up Next section on the home page.

Sure thing, if it’s within my scope and ethics and doesn’t involve getting arrested. If I’m making something from wood, bone, or other materials you provide, we’ll need to talk about where they came from.
I also teach maker workshops, and if you want some help with a project that you need to make yourself as part of your own practice, hit me up with the details and we’ll see what works best for you.

Wood is either from deadfall, storm damage, or normal trimming and pruning, or from something that was tossed out as waste wood by someone else. I don’t cut perfectly healthy plants just to make stuff out of. I also prefer wood that’s been on the ground for awhile because I don’t have to let it sit for months drying before I can work with it and it usually already has some cool spalting patterns.

Bone, horn, teeth, tusks, and other animal material is a bit more individualized and relative. It generally comes from roadkills, trail finds, or someone who died to be part of the food chain in what I call a non-ego-driven manner. Or from someone who may have been killed for reasons I won’t give a pass to, but for whom someone wants to make amends or pay appreciation to.

Example: I will not work with an individual that hunts for or keeps trophies. I will absolutely work with a person that has animal specimens for museum or other educational purposes, or as part of a totemic, animist, or other spiritual practice as long as there’s not a trophy mentality there. That can include someone who has stopped trophy hunting; see the last sentence in the previous paragraph.

I’m happy to make things out of distressed, aged or worn, or otherwise damaged animal remains if it seems appropriate and if the non-salvageable bits will be buried or cremated with respect, rather than disposed of as common rubbish. Again, trophy mentality applies here; I will not preserve a trophy for that type of individual, but I will help a person who wants to show appreciation and respect independent of any past motivations find a way to do that.

No problem. If you talked to me about at the show I usually tell people to take a picture of the item and send it to me when it’s workable to get it. You can arrange for shipping or pickup if you’re local to the wider Glasgow area.

It’s philosophical ;0)

Yep. With a few of my items, sometimes I have to tell people no. Some of my stuff, most notably the animal remains, has something attached to them you could consider totemic, animist, or just a wide range of whatsis that can fall under a broad ghost/landvaettir/wight/nature spirit type umbrella. They choose or don’t choose people, and I’m their taxi, not their boss.

IMPORTANT: if somebody does turn you down, you don’t wanna try to turn that into some sort of “worthiness” test. It’s not a More Spiritual Than Thou thing. Sometimes they pick people because the person is a freaking train wreck that needs a boot up their backside, or is about to seriously get their metaphorical ass handed to them by real life and could use some support personnel. If they don’t think you need them, that’s not a bad thing at all.