Cat's Eye Carving

International festival 2013!!

11 April, 2011 – 11:28 am

Well I finally have confimation of the site!

I will be organising an International Stonemasons Festival in 2013 at The Llanthony Secunda Priory in Gloucester. It is located near the docks on the canal!

The charities that this event will be supporting are The Llanthony Priory Trust and The Gloucestershire Geology Trust.

I hope to attract over 100 stonemasons from all over the world, we will have live music, side stands, hog roasts, beer and cider tents among other things.

If you think that you would like to take part, exhibit, provide sponsorship or help please email me via the form on my contacts page!!

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Some gift ideas

28 March, 2011 – 4:50 pm

Here are some images of my latest collection of gift items. I have put a 50p in for scale

Carvings such as the trinket bowls start at £35, and the Daisy bowl is £95.

I have been developing a range of pendants with fossils in them, prices for these start at £16 up to £25.

I also have Welsh slate pendants some with red Jasper inlayed and some heart and pear shaped ones. Some of these items are at Nature in Art at Twigworth and some are at Craft Renaissance nr Usk.

Hope you like my creations.

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Opening times.

20 March, 2011 – 7:18 pm

Because of my relocation my opening times have changed slightly.

I open at weekends from 11am-5pm, Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm and I am closed on Mondays, unless it is a bank holiday

Obviously if you are making a special journey to see me, please call ahead to make sure I am in!

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My new workshop!

7 March, 2011 – 12:29 pm

After an excting week at Taurus Crafts, I am pleased to announce that I will be staying. I will be in the marquee until April and then I will be moving into a permanent workshop on the site.

I will be starting my stone carving classes again once I am in my new workshop. Please check back for information about exciting events in the next couple of months!

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Well here he is, I have taken a series of photos, which help to document the week! What a tough week it was, rain sunshine wind hailstones and me sitting outside carving in it-well not the hail stones!!!!

I chose to carve a Wild Boar’s head because of the connection to the Forest of Dean! I chose not to carve the head and the body because I only had 7 days, and I’m pretty sure he’s big life-size!!!

I was carving Tetbury limestone from Veizeys Quarry-my favourite, not just because of the colour, but also the hardness-I don’t like carving anything too soft, it is actually more difficult!

Well here are some photos from Monday!

As you can see he is still just a rough block of stone, but I have put some saw cuts in to start to identify where his ears are going to be!

Tuesday!
Here you can start to see where his tusks are going to be, it is important when carving stone to know how much and where to leave stone in order to create the final features!