Beginners’ spoon and Kuksa bowl carving

In ancient times, woodlands provided everything we needed from building materials, food, firewood, herbal remedies and natural dyes. Woodcarvers Nick Gosman and Fay Jones will take you through how to sharpen tools safely, which tools to buy and basic carving techniques. At the end of the first day, you’ll take home your own spoon. On day two you will learn how to make a simple Kuksa bowl similar to those made by the Sámi nomads in Finland. We will take you from basic wood preparation, carving the bowl with an axe, gouge work and finishing to make a bowl that you can take away with you.  All tools are provided including chopping and gouge blocks.

Spaces on this course are limited to ensure 1:1 guidance

After a career in plant science research, Nick took the chance to change gears due to health-related issues. Nick now carves spoons and teaches workshops outdoors under a rain-out shelter where he can hear the birds singing and enjoy the sunshine in his wooded backyard. Along with his daughter, Nick also makes props for film, TV, and theatre productions, most recently House of the Dragon, as well as selling his hand-carved spoons and bowls online and at craft fairs and festivals.

Fay Jones is a Norfolk based woodworker who aims to enrich life with the handmade, exploring the world through the wonderful variety of materials it provides.  Making your own everyday things is important, with joy to be gained from the connection to past and future through materials, objects and processes.  She makes use of odds and ends, giving life to usually considered waste products, making beautiful and functional things for everyday use, embracing the wibbly wobbly and using hand tools as much a possible.