Robert George is an artist and arborist working with wood to create narrative rich works in a material lead work practice. Working with timber he has cut himself making the connection to material absolute. Having spent fifteen years learning everything from growing trees to drying timber his knowledge of wood and its properties is apparent in his refined but experimental works.

What connects Robert to his material? Usually a piece of rope as thick as your index finger. Working at height as an arborist for over a decade, studying, climbing and being in contact with wood in its rawest form – day in, day out and come rain or shine gives him a unique relationship with the work he creates.

Provenance is at the heart of every piece, the journey from camaraderie and brilliant team work on site to insular and meditative in the studio is encapsulated in his work and self-taught methods of working- following intuition and reflecting upon his own experience of how his material presented itself to him and how this may be perceived in the wider world