Sean Lambkin

I started my woodworking career as a cabinetmaker in 2001. The co-op I worked in gave me access to a wealth of practical knowledge from the other cabinetmakers, furniture makers, artists, and business owners that I was privileged to share space with. During this time I also began sketching furniture pieces, collecting design ideas, and finding my stylistic “voice”.

In 2007 I headed to Calcutta to work with an anti-trafficking NGO that had a community center inside one of the red light districts in Calcutta. The goal of this center was to not only provide basic health care to trafficked women, but also to provide a basic education to their children. I spent six months in Calcutta helping the NGO develop a woodworking program while teaching 22 students. The idea of the program was to give the children career and life options outside of the red light areas. Based on this program, I was invited back to India a year later to develop a similar class for an NGO in the Himalayas north of New Delhi. To date, four of my students have started their own carpentry businesses.

It wasn’t until after I returned from India that I started to integrate my experiences and artistic sympathies into a style that felt like it was mine. Although personal style is always evolving, I feel like I have found a basic design language with which I can begin to tell my story.

For the past five years I have based my workshop in Northern Virginia and have crafted custom pieces of my own design as well as designs requested by clients. I have also shown pieces at a number of art and craft shows around the country. I do ship across the continental United States, please contact me directly if you have questions about shipping to other locations.