VWA Members' Portfolio

Listed below are samples and links of VWA Member designer/makers.

Ross Annels Designer and maker of contemporary fine furniture, specialising in chairs, crafted to enhance modern and traditional interiors. Cooroy, Queensland "Buying handmade furniture is to engage in a transaction where the focus is on great design, on high-quality sustainably sourced materials, and on skilled work using craft processes - the furniture equivalent of 'slow food'."

Martin Davis Designer and maker of contemporary timber furniture. Melbourne, Victoria "…in making successful contemporary furniture one must address craft and design with an equal level of respect and skill."

Hamish Hill Designer/maker of wooden objects from Earrings to Houses. Melbourne, Victoria "Hamish has worked and created with wood for over thirty years: a quest that has taken him from designing and making furniture in England and Australia to building a timber framed house in the far north of Norway."

Rod Jones Fine Wood Artist & Carver in Australian Native Timbers. Custom made furniture, sculptures, clocks and carved house signs, commemorative plaques and trophies. Mount Evelyn, VIctoria "Since picking up that first chisel almost 20 years ago the craft has become an all consuming passion & a never ending learning curve for me."

Will Matthysen Designer and maker of Clocks and Furniture in Timber. Warrandyte, Victoria "From an early age it appeared to me that clocks possessed a magic of their own."

Andrew Potocnik Wood Turner & Sculptor. Melbourne, Victoria "Turning: an art form - I am drawn to wood mainly by it's intrinsic beauty and because of its potential as a medium for artistic expression."

Leo Sadlek Custom Woodwork, Furniture, Design and Craftmanship. Warragul, Victoria "Leo teaches Furniture Design at RMIT and enjoys rebuilding his cedar weatherboard home. But what he likes to do best is design and make contemporary furniture from his new studio/workshop on the fringe of Warragul"