Alex Finberg is an award-winning woodcarver, author, and workshop tutor based in South Devon. He creates handcarved spoons, bowls, and shrink pots from locally sourced green wood and teaches the craft through workshops, online masterclasses, and community wellbeing programmes with his social enterprise, Woodcrafters CIC.
Alex Finberg is an award-winning woodcarver, author, and workshop tutor based in South Devon. He teaches across the UK and is the author of Spoon Carving: From Log to Spoon (Crowood Press, 2024). His workshops span a range of institutions and festivals — from the Schumacher College MA Programme, Ambios, and Dartington Trust, to Spoonfest, the UK’s annual festival of the carved wooden spoon.
Alex’s work is rooted in traditional green woodworking, using local woods, hand tools, and quiet precision to carve spoons, bowls, and shrink pots that celebrate nature’s beauty, function, and flow.
As founder of Woodcrafters CIC, Alex initiated Woodcraft for Wellbeing — a programme harnessing the therapeutic power of craft to support marginalised groups, businesses, and organisations in fostering positive mental health and wellbeing. Originally commissioned by the NHS as a mental health service, Woodcrafters now delivers social prescribing programmes across Devon and trains new practitioners to scale its impact nationwide.
A Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, Alex also mentors and delivers talks on creative entrepreneurship, marketing, and grant funding for craftspeople. Winner of the Find a Maker Craft Festival Award 2023, he regularly exhibits with MAKE Southwest and at Craft Festival Bovey Tracey.
Explore Alex’s workshops, online masterclasses, and the Woodcraft for Wellbeing initiative at
