Comments on: Hugh Wedderburn, Master Woodcarver

By: Dorothy V. Malcolm

Dorothy V. Malcolm — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:37:42 +0000

This is fantastic, I love it. Great story.

By: Katherine Dack

Katherine Dack — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:41:02 +0000

Hello Hugh
Fascinatingly beautiful work. I love the way you encourage the figures to come clear of their wooden confines. Totally amazing, may God continue to help you with your works.
As a fellow crafty person, I wish you all of the best.
Regards
Katie

By: Beatrice Goddard

Beatrice Goddard — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:17:14 +0000

Dear Hugh Wedderburn

I would really like to be in contact with you regarding a possible Furniture History Society visit in Spring of next year.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Beatrice Goddard (FHS Events Secretary)

By: Roy Almaroad

Roy Almaroad — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:47:42 +0000

Good Morning Master:
I’m a 78 year old carver concentrating on faces and portraits. I recently visited the normal Gringling Gibbons places i.n London and even went to Petford House. His work was wonderful but badly deteriorating. I was hoping to see some of his tools to get a better idea of how he was able to carve with such minute detail. Couldn’t even get anyone to understand what I was aiming to find.
Would you be able to meet with me should I come back to London in February or March. I wouldn’t take too much of your time nor pester you with a lot of questions. It’s hard to find anyone to talk with in the US that comprehends the level of Gringling Gibbon’s work but as a master, you know what I mean.
Please let me know about a meeting,
Thanks,
Roy Almaroad

By: Michael Madden

Michael Madden — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:09:45 +0000

Hi Hugh,

It’s your old City and Guilds’ colleague, Mick Madden.
Angharad Rhys showed me this article. Really great to see you looking so young and how great your work has become. Can I come and see you some time? Many stories to tell. All best wishes…….

By: Robert Hume

Robert Hume — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:43:35 +0000

What a wonderful article! Your prose is not only extremely evocative of Hugh’s character and quiet passion, but resonates with sincere appreciation of his art. If there’s any way of forwarding the following, I’d be much obliged.

Hugh,
I, too, found this article through interest in the panel you wrought for the Cadfael series. Your handiwork therein, and in the pieces portrayed in this article, speak of a true artist. Simply beautiful.

This might be a long shot from a Yank across the pond, but I’m trying my hand at a large (1m) fox perched atop a stump. (I felled a dead Red Elm and just had to create something from the interesting wood.) Haven’t done anything like this before in my lifetime, but at 50 it seemed the time to give it a go. Any beginner’s advice, especially as to what tools to invest in?

Many thanks, and cheers!
Robert Hume, USA

By: Christine MacLeod

Christine MacLeod — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:15:03 +0000

I looked up who had done the carving for the credits in Cadfael. I found this article about Huw Wedderburn. I hope this email will reach him. I am staggered by the beauty of his work. I wish him a long, happy and peaceful life. Even in darkest Canada we know what extraordinary ability looks like. Thank you for the pleasure you have given us.

By: Joyce Newton

Joyce Newton — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:07:56 +0000

I don’t believe I have ever seen anything so beautiful and evocative as your work in Cadfael. I wait for it at the beginning of every film I watch again and again and always wish I could see more of it. Thank you.

By: Aubrey Nunes

Aubrey Nunes — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:19:55 +0000

I just LOVE your work. We need a very simple memorial for our beloved son who died very bravely thinking of what he could do after his death on Feb 6. I am a wood person. We already have what seems to me a suitable chunk of walnut. But maybe it is too well-seasoned for you? Our dear friend, Ian Walters, who did the statues of Nelson Mandela, who died some years ago, told me that he liked to work with green wood.

We are on 0207 274 8892

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:26:48 +0000

A craftsman!

I found the shop on google maps… ( I knew Tabard St because I had my first job in Long Lane in 1974) pYou can see the little oak trees in pots in the window.
Truly a man after my own heart.
I have been involved with london trees now for over fourty years and love planting acorns, just wish I could carve wood like our man in Tabard St!

Thank you

Mark B