Integral to what I do and believe in is for me to continually professionally train up to be the best maker that I can possibly be.
Over recent years, I have attended weekend courses with brilliant basketmakers including Jenny Crisp and Tim Johnson. I have been able to learn willow squarework with Eddie Glew at the Basketmakers’ Association Spring School in 2019 and more recently work in straw with Annmarie O’Sullivan at the Basketmakers’ Spring School in 2022. In 2019/20 I was also incredibly lucky to be able to regularly train with 79 year old, 4th generation Somerset commercial basketmaker Eddie Barnard.