Hawksworth, Jeff

After thirty years in the insurance industry, latterly as a pensions consultant, Jeff decided to take a gap decade.

His life has been filled with formative influences, such as those imparted by his woodwork teacher, 50 years ago, who gave him a lifelong love of wood and taught him how to work it. You might say Mr Dunkerley was Jeff's Mr Chips. (No pun intended).

Not forgetting Pam, his wife of 39 years, his son James and daughter Kim.

More recently, a master carver named Mike Painter taught Jeff how to carve wood and so wood carving has filled a significant part of the 'Gap', along wi...