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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
This year, I decided to step outside my comfort zone and work a geometrically constructed Nautilus shell. I used the spiral designed by Descartes and Bernoulli in 1638, shown in the second drawing. This is much more pleasing and true to form than the spiral which is based on Fibonacci's Golden Numbers-shown ...
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
On the 14th and 15th of August, I will be taking part in a stone masons festival at York Minster. There will be about 80 carvers and masons from around the country and abroad. We have the choice of 2 types of limestone depending on what we would like to ...
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
What a brilliant weekend. We arrived at 8:30 on Saturday, once we had got settled, carving commenced.
There were 6 of us with differing skill levels, we all had a ft cubed piece of Fishhill limetone from Broadway in the Cotswolds. It was very shelly and quite difficult to carve!
This year ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
I will be taking part in the mini stone carving event set in the beautiful surroundings of Highnam Court, Gloucestershire, on the 24th and 25th April 2010.
This is the clay model I will be working from!
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The carvings will be auctioned off on Sunday afternoon in aid of Gloucester Cathedral ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
This year it is taking place in the Vosgues Mountains in Saverne just North of Strasbourg.
This will take place from the 28th-30th May.
The website will be updated with more info during Feb.
www.stone-festival.org
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