Cat's Eye Carving

Ludlow Stonemasons festival

Really looking forward to this event on the 21st and 22nd May, for more information please visit

http://www.stlaurences.org.uk/ludlow-conservation-weekend

This promises to be a very exciting weekend with many interesting events talks and walk as well as the opportunities to watch professional stonemasons at work, at the end you will have the opportunity to bid on your favourite carving and help raise money for the restoration of St Laurences Church!!

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Highnam Court Spring Fair 2011

Thank-you to everyone who came and supported me at this years event!

My carving from last year raised £120 for The Pied Piper Appeal and Gloucester Cathedral. The auction was drawn on the Saturday and the lucky winners were very proud to win my Gargoyle!

Over the whole weekend I carved a Green Man in a piece of Fish-Hill limestone, very hard and shelly!!

Saturday saw a rather cloudy day, but people came out to enjoy all the fair had to offer. I was able to get on with my carving very well and set myself up to finish him on the Sunday. Deadline was 4pm on Sunday when the raffle was drawn for this years carving.

Sunday brought sunshine and plenty of people, I was able to wheel my banker outside and carve in full few of everyone! We managed to raise £232 for the charities from the sale of raffle tickets for my Green Man, and the lady who won him was incredibly excited-especially as his Great Grandfather was a stonemason!

I am very proud of my carving and as with all my pieces I will miss him!!!

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What a week!!

I will not be in today, Tuesday 3rd May.

As you can imagine, working over Bank Holiday weekends is incredibly tiring and when you factor in that I spend each day carving I find it necessary to sprinkle in some days off!!!!

I will be back in tomorrow, I have some Forest of Dean sandstone arriving for  a commission-3 Grotesques for a house that my customer is building, how cool!!

Obviously the big question is the stone for the Angels that I have been commissioned to carve as part of a memorial-lets just say I’m still working on that one.

I have been busy carving birdbaths, gargoyles, grotesques and the green man, so please check out my gallery for new images!

Hopefully I will see some of you at Highnam Court Spring Fair this weekend, The 7th and 8th May. I will be carving a Green Man and my prize winning carving from last years event will be in the raffle, so for a raffle ticket he could be yours!

Please visit www.highnamcourtspringfair.co.uk
for more information.

Here are the photos of my carving from last year!

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International festival 2013!!

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

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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