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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
As promised some photos!
I was given an amazing commission back in July to carve a pair of acorns and an acorn cup. I used the grey/green Forest of Dean sandstone, which is incredibly hard to carve but is very durable and will resist the frost.
They were 2ft x 12 x ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
So I started off with a rectangular block of Tetbury limestone. Once I had set out the geometry of this spiral I made a template and applied it to both sides of the stone.
Once carved using a series of chamfers, the stone starts to look like a large comma!!
It was ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
Some of you may remember the Nautilus shell I researched and carved at York Minster Stonemason's Festival last year. I decided to revisit this geometric pattern. It will be carved in slate, a simple yet elegant design which will hopefully have a similar feeling to the ripple designs that I ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Well here he is, I have taken a series of photos, which help to document the week! What a tough week it was, rain sunshine wind hailstones and me sitting outside carving in it-well not the hail stones!!!!
I chose to carve a Wild Boar's head because of the connection to ...
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
Well the seasonal craft fairs are over and I finally finished my carving, it is about 2 and a half ft cubed. Carved in Tetbury limestone. It has some beautiful fossils and calcite veins running through it.
Just so you don't have to go back through the archive I will put ...
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