Charlie is a woodworker and visual artist based in The Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Living here with her partner, daughter, 2 dogs and 3 chickens, she works from her own workshop in the garage, at the bottom of the garden.

She grew up in Lincolnshire and trained to be a sculptural artist at Loughborough University and then The University of Leeds, graduating in 2011. Since then she has been a CAD Designer and at 30 I retrained to be a Furniture Maker.

All of this experience has lead her to making woodwork that sometimes has utility, and sometimes is purely aesthetic, and she loves that she can combined the two. Wood is beautiful and should be shown as such!

In 2021 Charlie was a contestant on the first ever series of Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker (known as Good With Wood in Aus, US and NZ). She got through to the final round and made 6 wonderfully creative and crazy projects, that sparked the start of my own business and portfolio of woodwork. She’s made all sorts of bespoke projects since then. Clients have asked Charlie to make them (in no particular order) a dolls house, a classic car dashboard, a kitchen island, rocking horses, a kids toy chest and a seating bench, to name a few of her favourite projects.

Right now Charlie is focusing on her newest collection of artwork, her wallhangings. This is a style of visual artwork which she happened upon during the filming of the tv show. During the fifth episode the contestants were asked to make a drinks cabinet, wherein Charlie used some walnut branches to create checkered style door fronts. This visual affect was created using the end grain of the wood and is a striking way to use already characterful timber. This sparked the concept of using end grain wood as art, as something beautiful and intriguing enough to be artwork itself.