Archive for the ‘Sculpture’ Category

Carving a Snail Shell

Monday, September 12th, 2011

So I started off with a rectangular block of Tetbury limestone. Once I had set out the geometry of this spiral I made a template and applied it to both sides of the stone. Once carved using a series of chamfers, the stone starts to look like a large comma!! It was ...

Geometric Slate Carvings.

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Some of you may remember the Nautilus shell I researched and carved at York Minster Stonemason's Festival last year. I decided to revisit this geometric pattern. It will be carved in slate, a simple yet elegant design which will hopefully have a similar feeling to the ripple designs that I ...

Carving a Wild Boar’s head!!

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

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 ...

Large wave carving

Friday, January 14th, 2011

Well the seasonal craft fairs are over and I finally finished my carving, it is about 2 and a half ft cubed. Carved in Tetbury limestone. It has some beautiful fossils and calcite veins running through it. Just so you don't have to go back through the archive I will put ...

Sculpture of the month

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

I would like to show you some photos of how I went about carving one of my favourite sculptures. It is carved from Welsh slate and is 3ft high by 18 inches wide and just 2 inches at the thickest depth. I think that this sculpture would look amazing mounted on ...