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Sunday, January 21st, 2024
These two are the very latest commissions, very different house signs but carved with the same care.
Designing a house sign can take a few tries, as finding out what my customer doesn't want helps me identify what they would like.
The second image is whimsical and has a toy like hare, ...
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Saturday, December 30th, 2023
This is one of my latest commissions. I was asked to carve something unique to celebrate a wedding that took place in Bali. This is hand carved and painted out of a piece of Forest of Dean sandstone, with the national flower of Bali and holes for tealights.
3 Rectory Orchard ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2023
I finished my Greenman carving today, he's got a real old grumpy look about him, but in a good way, maybe it's just because I'm fed up with the weather and it's coming out in my carving. He He He.
Here's a video from my youtube channel and the finished photos.
This ...
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Sunday, December 17th, 2023
This Greenman is straight out of my imagination, I am not working from a plan or sketch. This is a fun way to be creative as things that I observe in nature and people that I meet come out of my sub-conscious and wind up as a stone carving.
Here's a ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2023
This is Ben Edge, an incredibly talented artist, he focuses on Folklore art and here he is as a Greenman.
Ben commissioned me to carve his as a Greenman and I relished the challenge. I hand carved this out of French limestone.
Once I had completed the carving, I made a silicone ...
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