This piece has been coloured with lightfast dyes to enhance the otherwise hidden figure, four different colours were used to acheive this result.

Horse Chestnut is a wood that has very little value other than as a spectacular ornamental parkland tree but unfortunately it is being attacked by a fungus that is slowly killing them off.

Horse Chestnut burr responds to being coloured with fantastic results. The colour transforms the beautiful but subdued figure into eye poppingly amazing stand out figure.

Horse Chestnut burr responds to being coloured with fantastic results. The colour transforms the beautiful but subdued figure into eye poppingly amazing stand out figure.

Horse Chestnut burr responds to being coloured with fantastic results. The colour transforms the beautiful but subdued figure into eye poppingly amazing stand out figure.

Horse Chestnut is a wood that has very little value other than as a spectacular ornamental parkland tree but unfortunately it is being attacked by a fungus that is slowly killing them off.

This is the most unusual piece of Elm I have ever seen, it's not really a burr because there aren't the typical clusters of knots that are characteristic of Burr Elm.

"The Fire Within" was formed from a slice of the small Burr Elm log that had no real commercial value and when I found it was actually being used as a support to keep larger more valuable logs off the ground where they were being stored before being sold.