Archive for August, 2010

How my large wave carving is progressing

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

As you can see since my last post on this sculpture, it is really coming on! I have been nibbling my way through the stone to create windows, these allow the light through and make you want to climb inside and explore!! Carving this has reminded me of all the shells and ...

What I carved in York.

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 ...

York Minster Stone Carving festival

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 ...

A little bit of everything!

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

I have been working on quite a few different projects. Obviously the one I have been dying to get on with is my big waves! here are some photos of how I am getting on. [nggallery id=76] This is a very large piece of Tetbury limestone from Veizeys Quarry near Tetbury. It is ...