Exploring Grymsdyke Farm
This week I had the chance to visit Grymsdyke Farm, set in the hills of Buckinghamshire. Founded by Guan Lee, the site brings together workshops for woodwork, ceramics and fabrication but more importantly, it creates space for material exploration and alternative ways of working.
A small group of us were guided around the farm by Guan and Vicky Richardson, walking through the environment he has steadily built over the past twenty years. In that time it has supported generations of students and designers to test ideas outside formal education and outside the usual workshop rules of what you should and shouldn’t do. It’s a place that allows for trial, error and genuine experimentation.
For me this marks the start of exploring the possibility of attending workshops or extended residences alongside commissioned work. Discovering spaces that push my practice forward, challenge how I see, and open up more hands-on collaboration.
The photographs here show the workshops and surrounding landscape, alongside a vast archive of experiments, processes and failures.
