Archive for the ‘Carrie’s News’ Category

Recent commissions

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 ...

St Margaret’s Bay sculpture.

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 ...

Chalk beach sculpture.

Saturday, December 31st, 2022

This is the first in my new series of sculptures inspired by St Margaret's Bay near Dover. I decided to use a 2 inch thick piece of French limestone for the purity of colour but also it's density and suitability for this sculpture. I decided to use flint for the base, this ...

New jewellery.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

I was asked by a friend if I could make a replacement for a lost earring. I have thoroughly enjoyed sourcing some beautiful lucky dip beads from Etsy shops. This has left me with lots of choice and some beautiful glass beads to make new earrings for my shop. I already ...

Seashell sculpture drawings

Saturday, December 3rd, 2022

I had a lovely few days with my Mum last week on the Kent coast. We went for a walk on the beach at St Margaret's at Cliffe and my ideas have once again been fuelled by the things I saw. Beautiful beach. Here are the 1st 3 drawings for my new sculptures ...