Another of Britain’s leading designer makers, Robert Ingham, has started work on a piece of furniture using wood from the OneOak tree. Robert Ingham, based in Denbighshire, is creating a piece called ‘Throne’. Like all the OneOak pieces, we will be following the story of its creation over the next few months on this blog.…
One of Britain’s leading designer makers, Philip Koomen, has started work on his OneOak piece of furniture. We will be following his progress over the next few months. He is collaborating with his son Jody Koomen, also a designer maker, who will be using the offcuts from Philip’s work to make his own pieces. Philip…
Our Sylva Scholar Kirsty Monk, who is running a science project with a primary school in Oxford funded by a Royal Society grant (read more), reports on recent progress. This week has been one of transition for the Royal Society project, seeing the culmination of the pilot class’ investigations and the start of the project…
Chilterns Woodland Conference Friday 16 March 2012 09:30 to 13:00: The Annual Chiltern Woodlands Conference this year will be looking into the future of forestry in England, the use of Box wood for musical instruments, the OneOak project, current forestry issues and news and much more. With talks from the Forestry Commission, Sylva Foundation and John Morris of the Chiltern…
Last year, students from Oxford & Cherwell Valley College’s (OCVC) Rycotewood Furniture Centre worked with all the school children in the OneOak project to design outdoor seating (read more). The students based their designs on the work of the children, and five schools are now proud owners of some unique seating in their playgrounds, made…
Two videos of the OneOak Sounding Bowl have been released this week. The first shows the making and turning processes by Tobias Kaye of Sounding Bowl-310, plus a second bowl that unfortunately developed a fatal split during the making process. The second video is of Tobias Kaye playing Bowl-310 to demonstrate its beautiful deep melodic…
The authors of The New Sylva are looking for a good example of a forest-grown wild cherry tree for illustration by our Artist in Residence Sarah Simblet. Visit The New Sylva website to find out more.
We have introduced a new sandbox mode to the myForest woodland owner account. An account in sandbox mode allows you to try myForest without creating any live data. Perfect for students, or anybody who wants to see what myForest can offer. Sandbox mode can be turned on or off at any time. Register for a sandbox…
Last week we posted the story of a Sounding Bowl made by Tobias Kaye as part of our OneOak project. We asked Tobias to tell us more about his work and inspiration. Here are his words. The making of Sounding Bowl 310 I should mention that not all of any tree is worthy of…
Our OneOak exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which opened in September 2011, has been extended a further month. It will remain open until Sunday 29th April. We are delighted that the Museum have decided to continue their support for the Exhibition. Initially a three month stay, the OneOak Exhibition will end…
