Archive for August, 2012

Dog portrait

Monday, August 27th, 2012

My latest commission was to carve a portratit of Marley, a Labrador/Rottweiler cross. My clients were bought a voucher for a wedding present and chose to have their beautiful dog immortalised in stone! The first stage was to model him in clay, I worked from photos and from Marley himself, however I ...

Stonecarving Festival 2013

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

I am pleased to announce that preparations are well under way for my next Stone-carving event. It will take place on the 24th - 27th May 2013 at The Llanthony Secunda priory in Gloucester. This historic site is on the banks of the canal near the beautiful Gloucester Docks. The Stone-carving Festival will ...

Gallery tidy up

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

Hello to my visitors, I have been tidying up my gallery and adding some new images, I hope that you will agree it is easier to see what I have on offer and see what kind of lettering you could commission from me in various styles, finishes and stones. Thank-you for ...

The Freeminers commission

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

After I finished the carving of the pair of Freeminers, I was asked to do 2 more carvings in Welsh and Cornish slate and carve bases for them as well. The bases are carved from Forest of Dean Sandstone, sadly the quarry I use has been closed for financial reasons so I ...

The Freeminers

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

This is a commission in Welsh slate of two Freeminers. "All male persons born or hereafter to be born and abiding within the said Hundred of St  Briavels, of the age of twenty one years and upwards, who shall have worked a year and a day in a coal or iron mine ...