Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
Oak Tea Ceremony Collection
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Alex Walshaw

Oak Tea Ceremony Collection

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Alex Walshaw’s response to our midsummer exhibition, Ritual. Alex honours a stag head oak and creates a tea ceremony collection to mark the summer solstice. 

The tea dish to hold gathered and dried elderflower; the spoon to scoop and stir the fragrant flowers; the pouring bowl to pour water into the bowl from which to drink the summer tea, hot or cooled, with ice perhaps.

Each piece in the tea collection is hand carved from relic oak, gathered from a ditch beneath the living tree from which it fell.

Stag head oak stays attached to the living oak for decades, weathering many seasons, becoming hard and dry, this piece is more susceptible to being blown down, landing like Excalibur into the rich dark ditch mud.

“Whilst carving these pieces after washing away all mud and grief, the muddy smell kept transporting me to spinning in rivers and ponds as a child, Saltfleet Creeks came to mind a lot”.

These pieces are carved from the submerged part and being in the mud for sometime the wood has reacted with it, giving a wonderful patina.

Hand carved tea serving dish from wind fallen oak.

Hand carved spoon from foraged oak.

Fallen relic oak pouring bowl, hand carved.

Hand carved bowl from foraged oak.

Alex Walshaw works in harmony with his material and creates pieces which follow the form of the wood he finds.

Alex is a woodsman who works with only naturally fallen and reclaimed woods. The traces of the wood’s history, through its weathered and marked surfaces and grain, is respected in the sculputral forms Alex creates. His sensitivity for ecology is reflected in the fact he is never takes too much fallen wood, leaving the rich habitat for many species and thus continuing the cycle.

Alex’s practice is totally embedded within nature. His natural surroundings are the source of his materials, his inspiration, and also act as his workplace, throughout every season. He shapes wood with simple hand tools, which have long been used for carving, such as axes, knives and adzs.

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