BRISTOL WOOD RECYCLING PROJECT

The Bristol Wood Recycling Project is a timber yard, a wood waste collection service and a workshop. They are a self financed, not for profit social enterprise and a cooperative. 

Through saving valuable resources from waste they provide socially inclusive volunteering and learning opportunities. Their timber yard is stocked with reclaimed and recycled timber, saved from landfill from all over Bristol and the South West. They have wood for gardens, timber for small building jobs, logs & charcoal for evening fires & BBQ's, shelves, doors, a selection of furniture, and whatever else that is wood-based that we can reclaim from landfill & waste.

Whether you are a small trader, DIY enthusiast, gardener, artist, environmentalist, or just a good old wood lover then you'll find something in the Bristol Wood Recycling Project.

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Priced for these recessionary times, get down to their timber yard today and visit Bristol's ethical choice for trade & DIY timber and related items.

To find out more about their social objectives, check out the 'About Us' page to find out more.

Visit their website: www.bwrp.org.uk

Follow them on Twitter: @BristolWRP

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facebook.com/pages/Bristol-Wood-Recycling-Project

For inspiration

DALTON GHETTI

I am amazed at the talent of Dalton Ghetti, a 49-year old carpenter from Bridgeport, Connecticut. Dalton has been carving the most incredible miniature sculptures for over 25 years without the aid of a magnifying glass. His canvas? The tiny tip of a lead pencil.

Dalton started carving tree bark when he was a child and experimented with everything from soap to chalk before settling on graphite. It’s second nature now, and for 90 percent of his work, all he needs is a sewing needle, a razor blade, a sculpting knife and a carpenter’s or No. 2 pencil.

“The pencil tip is great; it’s like a pure, very homogenous material,” he said. “It cuts in the same direction, not like wood, which has a grain. But when I tell people how long it takes, that’s when they don’t believe it. That’s what amazes people more, the patience. Because everything nowadays has to be fast, fast, fast.”

Mr. Ghetti often takes years to complete pieces, especially since pencil carving is only a hobby. A standard figure will take several months however the alphabet carvings below took about 2.5 years!

DOHA CHEBIB

Eco-friendly bowls designed by Doha Chebib are created out of unwanted waste wood.

PAINTED QUARTETS

Cheltenham Music Festival - Painted Quartets

Part of an exhibition to celebrate the bi-centenary year of Haydn's birth.

Alongside a series of concerts featuring eight quartets from around the world, over 20 artists from Gloucestershire and beyond were invited to paint redundant violins, violas and cellos.

Artist in order of image above as as follows:

Peter Swan (my father) - Ruth Crawford,

Cath Kidston - P.J.Crook,

Ana Biachi - Mila Judge-Furstova.