Looking upon ancient trees one cannot help but set our own lifespans against them, to see them as a measure, an exemplar, a record of history, stretching generations out behind us, generations before us. Though older far than we, they stand as we stand, they grow as we grow. They lift to the sunlight, they weather storms, they endure.
Josh Howard-Saunders
ContactMartin Jones has been making and designing wooden items for over 50 years. Based from his Buckinghamshire workshop since 1987 he has been specialising mainly in cottage industry production of fine wooden flowers and vases . He uses a variety of woodworking skills to create hand finished products which have been seen and sold direct to customers all over the world. Selling online, from London’s famous Covent Garden market for 26 years and to specialist U.K stockists. All designs and products produced are made using locally grown hardwood timber sourced nearly entirely in the U.K and often processed from our own fallen trees.
No tree stands alone. Not in the wood. Not in the hedgerow, not at the rivers bank, nor even solitary on the windblown brow of the hill. Because, stretching out mile upon mile under the soil, there is a network of mycelium, a primordial internet that connects all these rooted earth-bound things. A web of mutual support, hidden deep under the earth, quietly uniting all these disparate, bird filled, bracket-fungused, mini-Edens, these silent witnesses to history.
In loving memory of Ewan Williams. Words taken from eulogy by Josh Howard-Saunders.
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