I have been working as a cabinet maker and restorer of furniture for twenty years. I trained in woodwork with my uncle, a master carpenter, who was an apprentice with Harrods and steeped in the traditions of English Cabinet making. He taught me my hand skills but more importantly taught me that the only standard of work is the highest standard. Before moving to Devon I was owner and managing director of Phoenix Antique Furniture Restoration Limited in London.

I work mainly for private customers and am fortunate to have a loyal group of private collectors whose furniture I enjoy looking after. I also work for a number of prestigious institutional and commercial clients and have had the pleasure of working on furniture of the highest quality. Below is listed just some of the institutions for whom I have worked.

• St Paul's Cathedral Chapter House
• Agnews of Bond Street
• Country Life
• Barclays Bank Head Office
• SBC Warburg
• St James Palace Officer's Mess
• Coutts Bank Head Office
• English Speaking Union
• Bayerische Landesbanke

I have a particular interest in all furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. My main love is for early oak and walnut furniture. I also have a particular fondness for English chairs, English Regency furniture, the Arts and Crafts movement, boxes, clock cases, country and regional furniture, metamorphic furniture and Dutch, Italian and French furniture. A particular specialty is the retention of age, colour and patination on faded walnut, rosewood and mahogany finishes and repairs. Some of my business involves difficult work on valuable and important pieces but I am also happy working on more modest pieces requiring repairs.

As well as offering a full restoration and repair service I also make furniture of my own design and can reproduce copies of antique furniture. Recently I have completed some lovely new pieces. These include a rosewood and ebony desk, a pair of bookcases in Italian walnut and a large breakfront bookcase in American walnut.

I am a member of the Furniture History Society, The Regional Furniture Society and have a degree in History.

I am also proud to be a full accredited member of BAFRA, the British Antique Furniture Restorer's Association.