Cat's Eye Carving

Repair to a statue.

As you may know, I enjoy making things good again. This next commission was one that had to wait for some dry weather as I needed to work outside.

The statue is of Our Lady of St Thomas’ in Deal, she is made of plaster of Paris and painted, it’s had several coats of paint and there are areas of damage that need addressing.

She was missing fingers on one of her hands, there is a galvanised wire armature in the plaster and I needed to work with this, I couldn’t pull the wire too much, this would risk damaging the arm, I built her index finger over the wire and sculpted the rest of her digits.

I hope that they can find the money to restore the statue fully, it would be lovely to bring her back to her former glory.