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Thursday, May 12th, 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 ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
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 ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
THE GREATER CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, LUDLOW
STONE CARVING FESTIVAL
Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 May 2011
An invitation to masons, carvers, sculptors and stonework apprentices to take part in a Stone Carving Festival organised by The Conservation Trust for St Laurence, Ludlow, as a fund-raising event to contribute to the £27,000 urgently ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
This year, I decided to step outside my comfort zone and work a geometrically constructed Nautilus shell. I used the spiral designed by Descartes and Bernoulli in 1638, shown in the second drawing. This is much more pleasing and true to form than the spiral which is based on Fibonacci's Golden Numbers-shown ...
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
On the 14th and 15th of August, I will be taking part in a stone masons festival at York Minster. There will be about 80 carvers and masons from around the country and abroad. We have the choice of 2 types of limestone depending on what we would like to ...
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