Workshop

Ideas are fragile, and fickle. Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that we do not have ideas, they have us. If they visit us, and we don't look after them, they will go somewhere else.

This is a space for us to look after them.

Core Values

A covenant of craft

Learning and teaching are shared responsibilities. Knowledge is passed on with care; practice is met with honesty, patience, and effort.

Truth in making

We work with integrity. Materials, methods, and words are used as they are, without pretence. Our work carries its own witness.

Care for people and things

Ideas, models, materials, and the wider world are held in trust. What we make should last, be repairable, and leave room for others after us.

Useful and beautiful

We aim for work that serves and delights. Use without beauty is thin; beauty without use is hollow.

The workshop as a school

Creating is thinking made tangible. We learn by doing, by sharing, and by opening our work to the eyes and hands of others.

The discipline of simplicity

Clarity matters more than cleverness. Restraint keeps us honest, whether in words, form, or resources.

Belonging before renown

We stand in a lineage of creators. Credit is shared, standards are held in common, and no craft is ever ours alone.

Steady and open hands

Tradition gives us roots; openness gives us reach. We are ready to try, to share, and to be corrected.

Work in service

Craft is not an end in itself. It exists to meet real needs, to improve lives, and to bear consequences with awareness.

Peace in the process

Calm, kindness, and steadiness shape the pace of our work. Good work takes the time it needs.

As conversations give rise to projects, they will be posted here....