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Sunday, January 25th, 2015
As a traditionally trained stone mason I get to carve some beautiful and interesting things. For the last couple of weeks I have been working on a pair of Ball Finials with corresponding coping stones.
These are to be built onto the pillars of a low garden wall. Obviously there were scale ...
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Sunday, January 11th, 2015
Happy New year everyone, thank you for visiting my website and I hope you will take time to have a good look around.
Over the past 12mths I have been getting steadily busier which is great news as I enter my 10th year in business, this does mean however that I ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2014
Well here are the last photos of my carving of a portrait of Scally.
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His owners came in on Saturday morning with Scally trotting along side them and they loved my carving which was a relief!
This commission took approximately 7 weeks from the clay model through to the finished carving ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
Here are the latest photos of a commission to carve a Bichon Frise in Portland limestone.
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As you may recollect, I started with a clay model which I made from photographs and Scally the dog, once the model was approved I cast it in plaster and have been working from ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2014
Well this is a very tricky process and due to the interest this carving is generating it is taking a lot longer to carve;
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Obviously I am progressing more each day and hope to finish him in about 10 days!
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