The Hereford Bull
The Hereford Bull, a new boat built by T Nielsen in the traditional style of a Wye Trow, was named at a ceremony in Hereford City centre on 12th May.
The Trow included timber from our OneOak project, which was used to make the Transom Beam.
A plaque on the transom beam acknowledges to the OneOak timber
Watch a short film showing the naming ceremony:
One of our OneOak Makers, Philip Koomen, was featured last week in an excellent article in The Oxford Times. Also, our CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery gave a talk at Philip’s workshops last weekend as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks.
You can read The Oxford Times article here
Terry Hardaker, artist and woodcarver, has started work on a relief carving on the OneOak tree made from the tree’s own wood.
Terry Hardaker & relief carving in progress of the OneOak tree - made from the OneOak tree's wood
Terry is carving an image some 48 x 60cm in size, weighing 11 kilos, from one of the offcuts from a longer board used by a furniture maker. Terry works with traditional woodcarvers’ chisels but for this work he removed the ‘ground’ around the outline of the tree with a routing machine. He will still be working on the carving when he joins us at Art in Action in July (read more).
Terry is a member of the Ox & Bucks Woodcarvers Association (see British Wood Carvers Association) whose members meet weekly near Oxford to work on their projects. He trained in portrait painting then spent 16 years in raising silver plate before joining the woodcarvers in 2004.
Terry was invited to carve the OneOak tree and become part of the project having been ‘spotted’ at Art in Action in 2010. He says he has no room left at home to display woodcarvings and so accepts commissions to keep his eye in. He has designed and worked on historical themes for the 1000th anniversary of the formation of the county of Oxfordshire and the 450th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to the city of Abingdon.
We will be at the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History this Saturday 21st April for Oxfordshire Goes Wild. Staff will be meeting visitors to the OneOak exhibition, that has one week to go before closing, where we will be talking trees and holding a fun quiz. We will be joined by various wildlife organisations and supported by the museum’s amazing educational team.
The event is great for families and offers a chance for children and adults to get close and personal with bugs, flora and fauna around the rest of the museum:- let’s hope the dinosaurs stay asleep! Why not come along?
Free entry
12 – 4 pm
See the Museum’s What’s On page for further details
Designer-Maker Jody Koomen has shared with us a model of the coffee table that he will be making using wood from the OneOak tree. He is using offcuts from his father Phil Koomen, also a Designer-Maker, so that very little usable wood is wasted. Read more about the Father & Son Designer-Makers
A model of the coffee table to be made for the OneOak project by Jody Koomen
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