About

Hi, I'm Mark

I've been making things by hand since I was fifteen, when I started out in the silver trade — raising goblets, dishes and tankards from flat sheet metal. Life took me in other directions for a long stretch, but the pull to make never really left. During the Covid lockdowns I cleared out the garage, built myself a workbench, and started again — this time working in wood and light.

What's stayed with me the whole way is the quiet satisfaction of watching a base material become something someone values — as true turning a bowl from native timber today as it was raising a tankard at fifteen.

The part I love most is when the piece belongs to someone else's story. Give me the bare bones — an idea, or just a material that matters — and I'll tell your story through the work. It might be a slab of timber your grandad kept in the garage for years. That, to me, is what this is really about: connecting with someone, and transforming their story into something they can hold — a physical memory.

Whāia te iti kahurangi, ki te tuohu koe, me he maunga teitei

Pursue excellence; should you stumble, let it be to a lofty mountain.

A whakataukī I try to work by.

An old lawn bowl turned into an apple, a bud vase and a rose — **Made with you — from what matters.** This began as an old lawn bowl, still wearing its original markings and hand-tooled rings. It became a turned apple, a bud vase and a rose. Bring me something with a history, and I'll give it a second life.

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Let's make yours

If you've got a piece in mind — or just the beginnings of one — I'd love to hear it.

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