From her workshop in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Rachel makes unique wooden furniture and objects from the naturally abundant timber that shapes her local landscape.

She feels that as a fine art graduate, re trained to work with wood; everything she makes is a one - off, one of a kind sculpture.

Rachel loves working with wood, designing and moulding her work around the grain and patterns inherent in the material, through the shapes and forms she creates.

She sources all of her wood directly from the region she lives in, which is mostly storm blown or diseased, naturally air dried hardwood timber. She feels proud to hold that connection to the land and a real sense of sustainability in the material she uses.

Her making process centres around the timber she is able to source. Each plank is a starting point on a journey to find the best way to showcase this individual piece of wood, it's shapes and properties and turn it into an object that can be used or admired in somebody's home. She enjoys the initial stage of planing the timber - taking a rough board and slowly revealing it's beautiful character and grain as more wood is removed and the excitement of what it might become.