Maggie Fergusson

Imperfections in wood can make for the loveliest carvings

Often beneath the surface of a knobbly lump bulging from the side of a tree ‘a myriad of swirling, almost impossibly beautiful clusters is hiding’, bursting with creative possibility

Callum Robinson. [Credit: Marc Millar]

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