Andrew Musgrave was born in Zimbabwe, in 1974.

  Andrew came to England as a young child and moved to the Ribble Valley at the age of four; his joy, as a boy, was the garden and woodlands surrounding his home.

  By the age of 14 Andrew had made himself a woodturning lathe and had started to produce simple turned articles.

  As Andrew’s skills developed it became obvious that a better lathe was needed so that he could satisfactorily create the things he felt moved to make.

  These one-off items of turned art use the natural edges and characteristics of the wood to enhance the individual pieces.

  Much of the work Andrew does is with burr and watermarked baulks of timber, the striking complexity of the entangled features can only be seen once made visible by the artist. 

  Many hours have been spent scouring the woodland of the Ribble Valley searching for the raw materials from which most of these rare and unique creations are made.