''Oak is  the dominant material in much of the artist’s work. The Residual Geometry series is hewn from a single tree that grew at that very same site. It is resurrected here as an interconnected body of furniture that closely echoes the form of its source material and is reflective of that place of origin.''

Stephen O'Connell; Quercu

The furniture or Geometries are like the diagrams from wooden ship building manuals that show how to disassemble a tree and identify the crooks and joints that will provide the knees and braces for a boat’s ribs and decks, the hidden structures. This most essential heartwood core of a tree’s form, is shaped by the local climate, exposed and then used again for a different structural challenge. These Geometries are on the edge of being furniture, liminal, they play with familiar dimensions; seat heights and table levels, but they give none of the comfortable reassurances we expect, they are not ready to accommodate us, we hesitate. And as we examine our eyes will naturally find resonances between the natural world and the human body, in this instance our eyes flicker between seeing furniture or human forms, semi-human perhaps, frozen like the moulds of Pompeii’s Roman victims, with limbs and like the turned vessels having a sense of their own gravity''