Wooden bowls by Angus Clyne

Angus Clyne was born and brought up on the West Coast of Scotland. He attended Carlisle College of Art where he studied Fine Art for one year before deciding this course was not suited to him. He then spent several years travelling and working abroad, mainly in Canada. Returning to Scotland he worked at various jobs; fisherman, joiner and also running his own restaurant in Glenfinnan.

Angus took up woodturning as a hobby in 1997 and decided to become a professional woodturner in 1998. He is entirely self taught although he has since attended an advanced woodturning course taught by renowned professional woodturner Melvyn Firmager.

All the wood used for his work is locally sourced native hardwood, which comes from windblown trees. Although the trees are usually donated, Angus gives a finished piece to the original owner of the wood.

The work incorporates both wet and dry woodturning techniques and the natural shape and grain of the wood that is used influences the forms that he produces. For the vases and hollow forms that he makes he has developed his own range of specialist tools in order to create these shapes.