| 1978
|
Boat-building
course in Oulton Broad, Lowestoft |
| 1980
- 86 |
Self
-employed signmaker, then custom made furniture
including kitchens. |
| 1986-
87 |
Spent
one year working and travelling around Australia |
| 1988-
90 |
Two
year part-time course at London College of Furniture,
having moved back to family and present home, a
former pub on the Essex marshes, where I continue
to live with my wife and three children. |
| 1992
- present |
With
partner Simon Redfearn established Henderson & Redfearn,
a successful company making bespoke furniture and
employing 14 people incl. 3 Apprentices. |
| 1992 |
Met
Guy Taplin and renewed interest in carving birds,
particularly shorebirds and wildfowl. |
Exhibitions
followed at:
- Wildlife
Gallery Lavenham
- Woodgates
at East Bergholt
- Twenty
Twenty, Much Wenlock
- The
Wonderwall Gallery, Cirencester
- Various
exhibitions at my Studio
- Godfrey
and Watt, Harrogate
- The
Inspired Maker, Bath
- 54,
The Gallery Shepherd Market, Mayfair
- Exhibited
at Broadlands Game Fair
My
work is displayed in private homes and hotels and commercial
businesses throughout Britain and abroad.
I
have had articles and photographs of work in many journals
and periodicals, including BBC Homes and Antiques, Country
Living, East Anglan Daily Times as well as a documentary
for Japanese Television.
My
time is now spent between my business and my carving
work.
|