Derek Welsh (British b.1971-) Talking Time Table, 2019 glavanised steel and European oak (73cm high, 123cm wide (28.7in high, 48.4in wide)) Footnote: Exhibited: Design Exhibition Scotland, Edinburgh, 2019. Derek Welsh is a Scottish woodworker and designer who lives and works in Glasgow. He apprenticed with a small carpentry firm in Dumfries and Galloway and has over 25 years of woodworking skills and knowledge. Derek Welsh/Studio was founded in 2005 and produces bespoke interiors and furniture products with the focus on purposeful design, high quality materials and modern craftsmanship. Talking Time - These works were inspired by Welsh’s late grandfather who was blind, and he has strong memories of him methodically weaving seats with danish cord. The title of the work is taken from the clock owned by him called Talking Time, one of the first speaking clocks on the market to synthesize a human voice. Welsh sees the collection as a celebration of both the perfection and imperfection of the handmade and of time itself.