CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE. For some reason the enlarged images load ‘off screen’, below the window. Scroll down to see them! Will fix it some time. The inscriptions are IN TEXT LIKE THIS alongside each image. All these pieces have either a washable oil or wipeable lacquer finish as indicated. Dimensions in millimetres refer to approximate overall diameters. Unless stated otherwise, all these pieces were made from 50mm thick sycamore. Items in stock are priced in BLACK; those sold are priced in RED. For further information see TREEN

£120	BUSIE OLD FOOLE ... LOVE, ALL ALIKE, NO SEASON KNOWES, NOR CLYME, NOR HOURES, DAYES, MONETHS, WHICH ARE THE RAGS OF TIME. John DONNE ‘The Sunne Rising’ Oiled - 375mm
£65	Anonymous lines Lacquer - 455mm x 65mm
£195	MY DAME IS SICK AND GONE TO BED AND WE'LL GO MOULD SOME COCKLE -BREAD; UP WITH MY HEELS AND DOWN WITH MY HEAD, AND THIS IS THE WAY TO MOULD COCKLE-BREAD. John AUBREY according to whom “young wenches have a wanton sport ... they get upon a table board and then gather up their knees and their coats with their hands as high as they can and then they wobble to and fro with their buttocks as if they were kneading of dough with their arses and say these words...” Come along ladies; all together now! Artwork based on a drawing by Picasso. Lacquer - 465mm
£185	FOLIE QUIS POR FOL ME TINC From the ‘Roman De Rou’ by Wace of Jersey ca 1170 The artwork is based on a drawing by Picasso. Lacquer - 465mm
£180	The design on this dish is based on the stone font in Eardisley Church. Carved in about 1130 AD, the original stands some 4 feet high and is carved ‘in the round’. For more information about the original, and a photo, click HERE Oiled - 380mm
£75	AMA ET FAC QUOD VIS From St Augustine, he of the ‘Confessions’, who was not always good (“...sed noli modo.”) The ‘quote’ means ‘love and do what you will’ which for some reason is most often quoted as above but should read “dilige et quod vis fac.” One day I will do “nondum amabam, et amare amabam ... quaerebam quid amarem , amans amare” which is as wham-bam as they get Ma'am. Oiled - 295mm
£55	THE CHILD IS FATHER OF THE MAN - 17.X.99 WORDSWORTH: ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ Oiled - 310mm
£80	BETTER IS A MESS OF POTTAGE WITH LOVE THAN A FAT OX WITH ILL WILL. Proverbs XV.17 but from the Matthews translation of 1535 Oiled - 380mm
£80	Don't know how to do Greek in html, but it means ‘man cannot live by bread alone.’ Oiled - 420mm
£45	Costard: “...I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.” Love's Labour's Lost V.i The longest word in Shakespeare and of his own making and means (I think!) roughly ‘those who should be honoured but have not been yet.’ Oiled - 255mm
£185	AFTER THE KNIGFISHER'S WING HAS ANSWERED LIGHT TO LIGHT, AND IS SILENT, THE LIGHT IS STILL AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD. T.S.Eliot ‘Burnt Norton’ Lacquer - 500mm
£75	JHESU CRIST US SENDE HOUSBONDES MEEKE, YONGE, AND FRESSH ABEDDE. Chaucer, from ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale.’ Oiled - 390mm
£195	TELLE ME ALSO, TO WHAT CONCLUSION WERE MEMBRES MAAD OF GENERACION AND OF SO PARFIT WYS A WRIGHT YWROGHT? TRUSTETH RIGHT WEL, THEY WERE NAT MAAD FOR NOGHT. Chaucer, from ‘The Wife of Bath's Prologue.’ Artwork based on a drawing by Picasso. Lacquer - 380mm
£80	MEN KNOW BEST ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT WHAT WOMEN KNOW BETTER. George Eliot ‘Middlemarch’ Oiled - 355mm
£75	NIGRA SUM SED FORMOSA FILIAE JERUSALEM IDEO DILEXIT ME REX From ‘The Song of Songs’ Lacquer - 330mm
£70	I WAS A STOWAWAY; I TOO SURVIVED; I ESCAPED [getting off was no easier than getting on;] AND I HAVE FLOURISHED. Julian Barnes ‘A History of the World in 10½ Chapters’ And all those little spotty things are woodworm holes. Those who have read the book will understand! Oiled - 285mm x 70mm
£175	RYS UP, MY WYF, MY LADY FREE! The turtles voys is herd, my dowve sweete; The wynter is goon with alle his reynes weete, COM FORTH NOW, WITH THYNE EYEN COLUMBYN! HOW FAIRER BEEN THY BRESTES THAN IS WYN! Chaucer, from ‘The Merchant's Tale’ Artwork based on a drawing by Picasso. Lacquer - 515mm
£45	ON AVERAGE, EVERYBODY HAS ONE TESTICLE Anon Oiled - 180mm
£120	NIGRA SUM SED FORMOSA FILIAE JERUSALEM IDEO DILEXIT ME REX From ‘The Song of Songs’ Lacquer - 485mm
£75	RUDIS INDIGESTAQUE MOLES Ovid. (An unformed, confused mass) Oiled - 265mm
£120	BE WAR FROM IRE THAT IN THY BOSOM SLEPETH; WAR FRO THE SERPENT THAT SO SLILY CREPETH UNDER THE GRAS AND STYNGETH SUBTILLY Chaucer ‘The Summoner's Tale’ Lacquer - 450mm
	Astrological bowls based on an individual's unique, natal horoscope. For further details click HERE Oiled or lacquered - from about 250mm
£45	Now here's what I want to tell you. Lean over here so I can whisper in your ear. What I want to tell you is, NEVER SMOKE ANOTHER MAN'S PIPE. Frank McCourt ‘Angela's Ashes’ Oiled - 170mm
£165	MAKE ME A BOWL, A MIGHTY BOWL, LARGE AS MY CAPACIOUS SOUL VAST AS MY THIRST IS; LET IT HAVE DEPTH ENOUGH TO BE MY GRAVE, I MEAN THE GRAVE OF ALL MY CARE, FOR I DESIGN TO BURY IT THERE John Oldham ‘Dithyrambic’ (I think!) Oiled - 270mm x 160mm
£60	BE AY OF CHIERE AS LIGHT AS LEEF ON LYNDE. Chaucer, from ‘The Clerk's Tale’ Oiled - 350mm
£75	TILL THE WIND SHAKE A THOUSAND WHISPERS FROM THE YEW. T.S. Eliot ‘Ash Wednesday’ Oiled - 345mm

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