About Me 

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.

This website tries to show the range of things I do, but it’s not easy to put things in neat pigeon holes. There are too many overlaps. For instance at an annual Scout event ( Voluntary Sector ) whilst helping run activities ( Working ) I may select ( Woodland Management ) and fell or log up ( Tree Surgery ) a tree to use for the Pit Saw Challenge ( Training ) and carve ( Demonstration ) a themed prize ( Trophies ) for the day’s main event.