This drum carries something bright within it.
A different kind of song.
Crafted from the hide of a stag fallow deer from the Welsh / Shropshire borderlands, the hide was gently processed by my own hands and stretched onto an 16 inch oak hoop. The handle has been shaped into the form of a flower, bringing together deer, tree, blossom, and sound into one living piece.
The drum is finished with a hand-painted bee, spirals, and wild flowers. This is not the kind of drum I would usually paint. Most of my work tends to emerge from darker earth tones, bone memory, and the old wild places. But this drum arrived differently. It felt joyful from the beginning, Lighter, Golden and Full of warmth and movement.
As I worked with it, I was reminded by a bee of the old tradition of speaking to the bees, the ancient custom of sharing births, deaths, grief, and change with the hive, as though the bees themselves were part of the family, part of the living thread between worlds.
Bees remind me how egoic the human belief is that we stand at the top of life.
So much of modern culture is built around the idea that humans are separate from, or above, the rest of the living world. Yet without these tiny beings, entire ecosystems begin to collapse. Crops fail, wild flowers disappear, food chains unravel and life itself becomes fragile.
The bee quietly reminds us that power is not always loud, nor is importance measured by size, it is often the smallest beings often carry the greatest responsibilities.
There is a humility in that remembering.
To me, bees feel like lifeblood. Pollinators not only of flowers, but of relationship itself, moving between blossom, season, soil, animal, and human in an ancient choreography of reciprocity. Without them, the world falls silent.
This drum feels like a small prayer to that remembering.
Every mark, painting, and stitch has been completed by hand in my cottage tannery and workshop, in deep relationship with the materials, the land, and the spirit of the drum itself.
All my drums are cleaned with local herbs and come with a 1 year guarantee- click here for drum care and Guarantee information.
£345 plus p&p, or local collection from Ludlow
This drum carries something bright within it.
A different kind of song.
Crafted from the hide of a stag fallow deer from the Welsh / Shropshire borderlands, the hide was gently processed by my own hands and stretched onto an 16 inch oak hoop. The handle has been shaped into the form of a flower, bringing together deer, tree, blossom, and sound into one living piece.
The drum is finished with a hand-painted bee, spirals, and wild flowers. This is not the kind of drum I would usually paint. Most of my work tends to emerge from darker earth tones, bone memory, and the old wild places. But this drum arrived differently. It felt joyful from the beginning, Lighter, Golden and Full of warmth and movement.
As I worked with it, I was reminded by a bee of the old tradition of speaking to the bees, the ancient custom of sharing births, deaths, grief, and change with the hive, as though the bees themselves were part of the family, part of the living thread between worlds.
Bees remind me how egoic the human belief is that we stand at the top of life.
So much of modern culture is built around the idea that humans are separate from, or above, the rest of the living world. Yet without these tiny beings, entire ecosystems begin to collapse. Crops fail, wild flowers disappear, food chains unravel and life itself becomes fragile.
The bee quietly reminds us that power is not always loud, nor is importance measured by size, it is often the smallest beings often carry the greatest responsibilities.
There is a humility in that remembering.
To me, bees feel like lifeblood. Pollinators not only of flowers, but of relationship itself, moving between blossom, season, soil, animal, and human in an ancient choreography of reciprocity. Without them, the world falls silent.
This drum feels like a small prayer to that remembering.
Every mark, painting, and stitch has been completed by hand in my cottage tannery and workshop, in deep relationship with the materials, the land, and the spirit of the drum itself.
All my drums are cleaned with local herbs and come with a 1 year guarantee- click here for drum care and Guarantee information.
£345 plus p&p, or local collection from Ludlow
