Growing  up on a farm in South Norfolk I remember the old men sitting in the barn on rainy days repairing farm baskets using stuff they had cut from the hedgerows. As these old men retired and passed away so did many of their skills and a whole way of rural life.

It was a way of living that used locally available sustainable materials to create beautiful useful items for use around the house and farm.

Worried by this loss of heritage I spent a number of years visiting and learning from basket maker Adrian Charlton before receiving a bursary from the Worshipful Company of Basket Makers that allowed me to spend time over a year with another basket maker: Peter Dibble.