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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Well the lack of commissions has an up-side, I am able to work through some of my ideas.
You may have seen my sculpture 'July' I am currently working along the theme of water and movement. My latest sculpture again using Delabole slate and Tetbury limestone features a sphere of limestone ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Missfire is a year old on 2oth September. For those of you that don't know, Missfire is Clare Robertson the Artist/Blacksmith at Harts Barn.
We are collaborating on a sculpture, I am carving an acorn-approx 2ft high, this will be the anchor for an Oak tree that Clare is fashioning out ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Well here she is from start to finish,
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This carving has taken about 8wks, however it was carved over a period of 3mths.
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Portland limestone is incredibly hard, around the bottom of the sculpture there are some large oyster shell fossils and on the side there is a fossil ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Well here they are, the final photos of my stone carving of my Art Nouveau style woman.
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As you can see, the final stages are about creating more depth within the stone carving and refining features.
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I use for this are the small tungsten carbide chisels for this, However it is at this stage ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
I have found myself falling quite by accident into an Art Nouveau style of carving, with my ladies and their long flowing hair, the idea of carving a feeling, not necessarily a perfectly formed human figure. However I hope I never carve anything disturbing.
From this I have decided to follow this ...
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