“I took a year off college to travel around Japan, WWOOFing,” says Westport-based Ed Forristal.
“I worked on various farms and in the basin of a mountain outside of Kyoto I was asked to cut down trees and build the owner of the land a garage for his car.
Once that was done I built him storage for his firewood and re-floored his chicken coop.
That was the first bit of woodwork I had ever done and although it was very different to the sort of woodwork I do now it completely changed my perspective on work and how I wanted to make a living throughout life.”
He has just launched his new collection of wood-turned tableware which reveal grain, texture and simple beauty.
