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Meditation, A Tetbury Limestone Sculpture.

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

As you may have read from some of my other posts, not everything goes to plan when carving detailed sculpture. This is an example of when everything goes right. Meditation is a bust of a woman, she is wearing a scarf around her hair that drapes around her neck. This stone carving was inspired by ...

Dancing in the Wind. Stone Sculpture

Monday, August 4th, 2008

This Carving was completed about three months ago. It is the most detailed stone carving that I have created on such a small scale. Every time I start a new carving I have an idea of what I would like it to look like in my head. This one was inspired by the elegance and ...

Pins and Needles Stone Sculpture

Monday, July 14th, 2008

This is Pins and Needles, so called because if she ever stood up that is what she would have!! When I carve I never concentrate on any one feature, it is important to maintain a flow between each feature. This was the biggest and first full figure that I had carved. ...

My New Workshop Layout

Monday, June 9th, 2008

For the last three days I have been reorganising my workshop!! I have wanted to do it for months now but you know what it's like, there's always something else to do. When I moved in there in January 2007, the previous occupier had re-hung the door so I designed my ...

Work in Progress

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I was hoping to get the dogs head finished on Sunday but my workshop took longer than I had anticipated- sorry to my customer if he is reading this. I hope to get him finished on Tuesday. Old chapel house is finished and looks gorgeous, I have another one to start ...