Archive for January, 2023
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
When I moved to Gloucestershire to take up my apprenticeship at Gloucester Cathedral, I was asked to design a stonemason's mark. This mark now appears on everything I carve and it can be found on all the pieces that I carved for Gloucester Cathedral.
A little over 30 years ago I ...
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Friday, January 13th, 2023
Some of the creations that I make to sell are reproductions of my clay models and stone/plaster carvings.
This one is a copy of a Medieval Angel found in a Church in Gloucester. St Mary De Crypt in Southgate Street in Gloucester.
Once I had some photos, I could sculpt a clay ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem was carved into an old grinding stone that my customer brought in to me. After a chisel check to make sure it was suitable for carving, I measured in from the edge and adjusted these measurements to balance the letter forms, this gave me my construction lines ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
I am so excited to share my photos with you of my 1st in a series of sculptures inspired by St Margaret's bay near Dover.
Inspired by the flint pebbles that are tumbled around by the waves in the chalk and create beautiful shapes.
Shapes of footprints, waves and pebbles, nodules of ...
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