For a lifetime I have loved the medium of timber. As a child I was fascinated with building treehouses. I went onto become a high school woodwork teacher. I had the opportunity to build my own home and various furniture items. Today I package it all as ‘woodstories’.

Every piece has a story. Every piece is different, has grown different and has been sourced different. I package most of my pieces with stories. Both the timber and the timber cutters have classic stories.

I love revealing the God given natural colours and textures hidden within timber whilst at the same time making some functional item via my bowl turning. In this I sense a living parable as we all are shaped through life. I also share the love by selling bowl blanks from home or shipping around Australia.

I love to see people realise some woodwork project and within my garage and skillset are multiple tools and machines to help individuals acheive some project. Whether it has been to dress timber for shelving, or make a coffee table, or a home school group making cutting boards or even a laminated dog chair for a bike!

I also have a passion to engage people with the trees themselves via treehouse construction. There is an inner child within most people that engages with a treehouse. I believe that one can build a family by building a treehouse together and am committed to being a consultant to help make this possible.

It kills me to see perfectly good timber being reduced to woodchip by local aborists. I have been developing a relationship with such timber cutters and milling my own timber is so satisfying. 

Increasingly I have people asking to learn some basic woodturning, so I offer a one off two hour (single) or three hour (two person) session to complete a bowl, or ongoing coaching. Gift vouchers also available to gift the experience of woodturning see online store!  Contact me at brett.davis59@gmail.com

“Rejected and Restored” is a big theme of my work. Whether it’s saving logs from the chipper or specifically showcasing timber that would have otherwise been discarded. The defects and irregularities are typically produced by hardship in the trees life, and not unlike our own life challenges, in the right hands, can produce beautiful features in us!