Fear, Patience and Humous

“It was an incredible sight, an unbelievable sight, they galloped up with their lances and with pennants flying, up the slope to High Wood and straight into it. …”  F.W. Beadle, 2nd Lieutenant It took them many hours to thread their way, tired and breathless, to the...

Rice, Beans and a Greenwood Willow Chair

In a small hut by a river lived a ferryman.  He spent his days watching and listening to the river, occasionally carrying a traveller across the water in return for a few small coins and a kind word.  Every day he prepared a small meal of rice and beans, which he ate,...

Cill Rialaig Exhibition Opening

I just want to thank Dr. Noelle Campbell-Sharp and everyone at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre for everything they have done for me.  I really have no words to express my gratitude.  There have been a few events in my life that stand out for me, and now there is one more....

Flow – Willow Greenwood Armchair

But of all the water’s secrets, he saw today only a single one – one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Hesse...

Valhalla

We pinched cigarettes into extinction, between trembling fingers, and placed them safely in our pockets for later.  Others took last lingering draws on warm pipes before returning them to pouches or pockets.  We moved forward in silent lines, our horses stumbling on...

Elemental – Hazel Greenwood Armchair

  I started with a very definite idea, something I believed was immutable. I was going to make a chair that could adorn a huge stone library the walls of which are lined with shelf upon shelf of rare and beautiful books – where, nightly, they would be taken down...

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