Master craftsmen creating bespoke woodwork

Outdoor Classroom

Outdoor Classroom

This structure was built with Sweet Chestnut. All the uprights, barge & fascia boards, hand rails, cross brace and spindles came from one cluster of coppiced trees from a local wood. We removed the bark and were able to find two sections of tree that almost perfectly mirrored each other to form the entrance.
The roof was built using pine, as were the floor joists and decking boards. The roof tiles were made from Canadian Red Cedarwood. The benches are made from oak, planked for us at a local saw mill.

Artisan Structures harness the beauty of the wood to create unique and bespoke products.

Artisan Structures are based in the Newmarket area in Suffolk. Duncan Dodds is a local carpenter/joiner and Tim Atkins is an experienced chainsaw carving artist.

Duncan and Tim with some of their works

Duncan’s background covers all carpentry from working on loft conversions and extensions, and helping landscape gardens with raised oak beds and raised decking, to building coffee and dining tables in his workshop.

Tim has worked on many commissioned pieces of all shapes and sizes. Some of his work can be seen on Chain Creations – he has also entered carving competitions all over the world and is extremely well known and respected in the chainsaw carving world.
This style of carving can add something completely different to a bench or a structure.