I’m Peter Freeman. I was Green before Green was invented, playing about in and with trees since growing up as a kid in a big garden, although earning a living for 40 years as an Architectural Technician and working with wood as a way of ‘practising what I preached’. Eventually it occurred to me that my love of wood, my understanding of the way things grow, and an inherent feel for the way the resulting timber behaves when used in buildings, furniture and so on, was something I should not be keeping to myself.

A while back, having bought a chainsaw for cutting up firewood, the artist in me inevitably wanted to play with it and see what I ( and it ) was capable of. People seemed to like what I made and wanted to see how it’s done, so I found myself visiting local shows and demonstrating as well as displaying my output for sale.

They say “the rest is history” – well that came when I met a few re-enactors and realised that the hand tools I’d inherited from my grandfather, and still use, are a fascinating subject in themselves. So I now use a combination of ancient and modern technologies to bring out the beauty of wood in a wide variety of objects.

For want of a better description I now call myself a Green Wood Worker, although not all my wood is green.