Axe & Paddle Bushcraft

Back in 2012, when husband and wife team Steven and Kirsty Le Say hosted a Spoon Carving Workshop in a friends garden on the request of a few interested neighbours. In the years since, we’ve opened up our own seaside workshop just outside of Brighton, where we host a number of courses, teaching primitive skills and bushcraft. Steve teaches overseas as well, with Living by Nature and we are regularly exhibiting crafts or teaching at various events across Europe. We’re still in Brighton currently, but will soon be moving to South Wales – into the Brecon Beacons – and our courses and workshops will be hosted from there from Feb 2023. Our new space in Wales includes workshop space, 8 acres of land, a small woodland and a stream. It’s all nestled within the Brecon Beacons National Park in stunning scenery. A hiking footpath onto the Beacons themselves, runs directly parallel to our land. We teach bushcraft and ancestral skills for all ages and levels of experience We hand craft items inspired by ancestral craft, often using primitive tools and techniques. We also create bespoke pieces on request We’re available to exhibit and teach at events. We also curate fellow craftspeople for larger events under ‘The Craft Collective’ We write regularly for The Bushcraft Journal.