Charlie Whinney Studio

30/04/2026

Thanks for a beautiful evening last night previewing the first bits of my new show ‘Ask a Tree’ which is heading to London today. The open evening will be on 13th May 6pm-8pm in Vauxhall, please see www.askatree.net and I’ll also do a mini talk on regenerative practice and regenability etc that even too.

26/03/2026

Close up on an icy morning

03/10/2025

17/07/2025

Congratulations it’s Graduation Day!!!! 🧑‍🎓🥳 was such a privilege to share that space and journey with so many excellent other students and teachers!!! This course is so fresh and ambitious, definitely changed my life. If you’re on the fence about studying again I can’t recommend it enough!

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15/07/2025

Not a bad sign that it was hard to photograph without people being in the shot, I’m back onsite Thursday morning for my last visit in this phase of work, we’ll be doing final snags and delivering some interpretation.

Thanks again for all the lovely comments and to and for their unwavering support throughout the whole long process.

Thanks also to , , and Matt for the excellent workshop help, and for the timber we used all from either our valley or just five minutes away at the Sizergh Estate

Thanks also very much to .here and for excellent advice hopefully weeding out the worst of my interpretation of the public’s word into the branching poetic verse-form, still not sure if it’s a poem or a sculpture!?

Finally thanks most of all to amazing people of Northumbria, the public and also NNPA rangers and staff who unwittingly helped me design this work in September last year during our public engagement and the 100s of people who shared the words which we used to create this piece. It’s been such a huge privilege to learn a little of how you loved this tree in this amazing place, and the many different roles the tree had in your lives. This has changed forever how I relate to the trees in my life now. Getting close to this project despite not being from Northumberland has also made me see afresh some of the special places (and trees) in my life which I would be indelibly hurt and changed if anything ever happened to them.

10/07/2025

Thanks so so much everyone for the help and nice comments regarding the project today, I’ll sort through some of the many pics over the weekend and try and show how we did and something of the amazing journey this has been.

10/01/2025

The Mosshut which we made as part of a project with .here for a few years ago has, I’m very delighted to say, actual moss growing on it!

I was in Grasmere and popped in to have a quick check as not seen in for a while, all looking good with the Cumbrian Oak shingles. Despite being only 5mm thick show no signs of degradation, but do have a thin layer of algae with some baby mosses growing in the humid air.

11/12/2024

Another small sculpture in Oak for this actually got stained darker but I can't find the picture and I always prefer to see the wood for what it is.

Thanks do much to and (remind me who else!) And brilliant job on the base by .uk

11/12/2024

Here's another one for this all about detail. This is UK Walnut, we had to learn how to create over 500 tiny cnc caps, alot of fiddly work with tweezers getting it a perfect!

Real pleasure to work with on this who also oversaw the design too and visit your amazing workshop, thanks also to and others, please remind me!!

11/12/2024

Still on catch up we played a tiny role (no pun!) in this by ._randall_page and which has been open for over a year now and won awards too!!!

Was an honour and a pleasure to be part of that fantastic team!!! see https://www.instagram.com/tv/Co7GFhALiLa/?igsh=MTZicWQ3Mm82MmMwYQ== for the finished thing. Really had to believe them that our steambent Oak could take the full weight of the whole bridge, we learned a lot including to trust engineers!

Thanks also to .wood.store .furniture and for excellent milling of Oak from the woods here (is a while ago now but sure I was fussy!) Is amazing to think this amazing bridge should outlast all of us!