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View ArticleOwl and Oak leaves
I’m drawing out a design for a stone roundel to be carved with a Barn Owl in flight, oak leaves and a vole scuttling away to safety. The sketches just make sure I’ve got all the details right before...
View ArticleSight and Touch
It seems strange to me, but art history is littered with debate surrounding the idea that painting was better than sculpture. Luckily, it doesn’t seem to be an issue today, at least I’ve never felt a...
View ArticleStone adjusting to its new surroundings
Last week a delivery of stone arrived and it was so cold and still snowing here, that I left it sitting. Today is such a pleasure unpacking, removing the wrapping and straps, letting it breathe and...
View ArticleYork Minster Stone Carving Festival 2018
I heard yesterday from the Stoneyard at York Minster that I have been allocated a place at the York Minster Stone Carving Festival 2018. This will be a new experience for me as I haven’t carved at a...
View ArticleThe Shape of the Dawn Chorus
Sonogram stone – a pebble carved with the visual representation of the sound of a curlew call Tomorrow I’m getting up early, really early. Before dawn in fact, as it is International Dawn Chorus...
View ArticleView with Stone
I sat on this stone – it was warm from the morning’s sun – and took in the view whilst eating lunch. An excursion to explore an old quarry site, now overgrown with saplings, bramble and wild...
View ArticleA showcase of carving skills at York Minster
The York Minster Stone Carving Festival 2018 is next weekend – 18th and 19th August. I’ve been thinking for ages what I might carve during the two days. The theme is ‘All Creatures Great and...
View ArticleYork Minster Stone Carving Festival 2018
I decided in the end on my original insect idea – a bee, just landed on a flower. The first day saw plenty progress the shape roughly outlined, ready for day two detailing. I thought things hadn’t...
View ArticleCarved Stones along the River Aire
Carving a Red Admiral Butterfly into one of the marker stones Earlier in the year I worked with Arup, (an independent firm of designers, engineers, architects, planners, consultants and technical...
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