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With the Grain

by Giles Sutherland, Editor(s)

ISBN: 9781841584324
Imprint: Birlinn
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Format: Paperback
Price: £16.99
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Until his death in 2000, at the age of 48, Tim Stead worked tirelessly sustaining his various and diverse projects which extended from the founding of the Borders Community Woodland to the establishment of Woodschool, near Jedburgh, a centre designed to cultivate talented young woodworkers in the use of the rich resources of the Scottish forests. However, Tim was most famous for his own striking sculptures and furniture pieces created from a mixture of mainly elm, oak and ash. His inspiration was heavily drawn from these materials, resulting in gloriously organic celebrations of the natural world.

This book, published to coincide with a retrospective of Stead’s work at the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh and introduced with a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, aims to bring together all the different strands of Stead’s career. A collection of memoirs, interviews, poems and essays, and lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, With the Grain is a fascinating and fitting memorial to an inspirational man whose deep love and understanding of nature touched every aspect of his life and shines through every chair, poem and pupil left behind.

Giles Sutherland is a freelance writer and art critic. He has previously written Explorations in Wood (1994) and Passionate Paint: the Art of Lys Hansen (1998) and is currently working on a critical study of the work of the sculptor Lotte Glob.

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