RACHEL ASHCROFT

From her workshop in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Rachel Ashcroft makes unique wooden furniture and objects from the naturally abundant resource that shapes her local landscape. Designing her work around the grain and patterns inherent in the timber, which shines through the shapes and forms she creates. As a fine art graduate, re-trained to work with wood; she feels that everything she makes is a one-off, one-of-a-kind sculpture.All of the timber she works with is sourced directly from the region she lives in and is mostly storm-blown or diseased, naturally air dried hardwood. She feels proud to hold that connection to the land and a real sense of sustainability in the material she uses.