Cat's Eye Carving

House signs.

These two are the very latest commissions, very different house signs but carved with the same care.

Designing a house sign can take a few tries, as finding out what my customer doesn’t want helps me identify what they would like.

The second image is whimsical and has a toy like hare, whereas the first image is more formal with the mystical moongazing hare, this is the one my customer liked but I needed to make the snout shorter.

3 Rectory Orchard was more straight forward as my customer liked a previous commission.

I currently have a 5 month waiting list so please get in touch if you would like to discuss your project.

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Commissions

This is one of my latest commissions. I was asked to carve something unique to celebrate a wedding that took place in Bali. This is hand carved and painted out of a piece of Forest of Dean sandstone, with the national flower of Bali and holes for tealights.

3 Rectory Orchard will be my first commission of the new year.

Harecroft with the whimsical font wasn’t right for my customer so I re-drew it, the font is right but I need to make the nose of the Hare shorter, it doesn’t look quite right.

Each house sign is drawn from my imagination, so I don’t always get it right first time.

This is the next one on my list, but this is just a rough draft and I need to get the spacing and size of some of the letters redrawn.

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Greenman carving

I finished my Greenman carving today, he’s got a real old grumpy look about him, but in a good way, maybe it’s just because I’m fed up with the weather and it’s coming out in my carving. He He He.

Here’s a video from my youtube channel and the finished photos.

This is roughly 25 hours work and costs £1200

There’s a mouse tucked in one side and a bird on the other.

I hope you like him, there’s two hares coming next 🙂

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Greenman carving.

This Greenman is straight out of my imagination, I am not working from a plan or sketch. This is a fun way to be creative as things that I observe in nature and people that I meet come out of my sub-conscious and wind up as a stone carving.

Here’s a video of me carving him.

I am using French limestone, it is lovely and dense and carves beautifully.

I am using cold steel chisels but some tungsten tipped chisels for when I come across a fossil.

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A Greenman portrait.

This is Ben Edge, an incredibly talented artist, he focuses on Folklore art and here he is as a Greenman.

Ben commissioned me to carve his as a Greenman and I relished the challenge. I hand carved this out of French limestone.

Once I had completed the carving, I made a silicone mould so that casts could be produced.

There are 13 casts and Ben is going to paint them in his inimitable style. These will be available to buy from him.

Here we both are with my original stone-carving, when Ben came and collected his casts.

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