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All my wood carvings are handmade in East Sussex close to the beautiful South Downs National Park.
Tel Knight Woodcraft on: 07565 879927
All my wood carvings are handmade in East Sussex close to the beautiful South Downs National Park.
Rohan Horse Emblem from Lord of the Rings
My name is Steve Knight and I was born in East London in 1966. When I was five years old my family and I relocated to the London/Kent border. It was here that my love of trees and woodlands began. Close to where I lived there was a ruined monastery and the woodland that once belonged to it. My friends and I spent many happy days hanging out and playing in the ruins and surrounding woodlands of Lesness Abbey.
We found an old oak tree in the middle of the woods that we liked to climb and play on and even decided to give our little gang the name “The Oak Monkeys” in honour of the tree.
Some years later I took my girlfriend (now my wife) to show her the tree I used to climb when I was a kid only to find it had been brought down during the hurricane of October ‘87. When I think back I realised that was the moment my childhood ended.
Moving forward a few more years my wife and our three kids moved to the market town of East Grinstead in West Sussex, where we still live now. Our decision to relocate was partly influenced by the fact we would be living very close to the ancient Ashdown Forest, where the stories of A.A.Milne’s Winnie the Pooh are based.
This is where my journey of working with wood began. One day on a walk in the forest I found a small fallen branch that I thought would make a nice walking stick. Once I was home I thought it might be a nice idea to carve the stick. I bought my first wood carving knife and my passion for carving wood grew from there.
Since then I’ve carved many types of wood and made it into many different things. From walking sticks I moved on to carving spoons, then bowls, wands, acorns and finally carvings of trees and leaves.
I like the fact things seem to have come full circle and I’m now carving trees from trees essentially. Although I like to carve other things from nature my first love will always be trees and when I’m sitting quietly in my shed with just the sound of the knife shaping the wood, I often reminisce about my times as a kid with the other oak monkeys and our special oak.
Enough of my sentimental ramblings now and thank you for taking an interest in my work.
To see how my wood carvings and woodcraft are created please take a look at my Youtube Channel
I create carvings you can enjoy for years to come. If you ever encounter a design flaw or craftsmanship issue I will replace the piece or provide a refund.
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