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How to place a sculpture in the garden
In the beautiful spring sunshine I’ve been quietly concentrating on carving a small Rabbit sculpture. The Rabbit is caught mid-groom – body folded in on itself. She is not posing, or performing, she’s just being. Utterly at ease in her own world. Even in stone her shape suggests warmth and softness. You can feel […]
Boar in the Woods
Beneath the trees where nobody sees They’ll hide and seek as long as they please These are a couple of lines from Teddy Bear’s Picnic song – ‘If you go down to the woods today’. I remember singing it as a youngster, but never really understanding it. Not that it demanded any great interpretation […]
Magpie Contemporary Art – Exhibition
I’ll be showing sculpture at the Magpie Contemporary Art Summer Exhibition in May. The gallery opens out onto a garden so you can browse the sunshine filled space and meander through to the outdoors where pieces are beautifully curated in a natural and inspiring setting. This piece is Garden Bird carved in Tadcaster Limestone. […]
The Early Bird
The Early Bird garden sculpture. There’s such a feeling of energy with leaf buds appearing on the trees and signs of growth and greenery. The garden calls. Birdsong, seedlings, tidying and compost digging – all in the Spring sunshine and accompanied by a following of small garden birds, singing and searching in the newly […]
A partner for Pigeon
A pair of Pigeons sculpture carved in Ancaster Weatherbed Limestone. I made a partner for Pigeon and they’re getting along nicely. The Pigeons in the field by my workshop are busy collecting twigs and are clearly paired up. There’s quite a flock, which rise up with a clatter and I look to see what […]
Pigeon Sculpture
I think I read somewhere that Pigeons were the first domesticated bird. Darwin wrote much about them in his publication The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, having for many years bred Pigeons and used them as an example to illustrate the extent of variation in domesticated species. Perhaps our association with them […]
Big Garden Birdwatch 2025
Enjoying being part of the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch again this January. I’ve seen already Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren, Pigeon, Crow, Jackdaw and heard the Buzzard. Also a special treat five Grey Wagtails feeding in the adjacent field. They’ve been there over the past few days, along with a flock of Redwings and Fieldfares. […]
Merry Christmas
Happy festive season – wishing you a very Merry Christmas
Hedgerow Birds sculpture
Hedgerow Birds – carved in Yorkstone – 6″ x 2″ x 4″ Often when I sit quietly for a moment, perhaps assessing my progress with a sculpture, or to rest weary arms, I’m joined by little birds. They hop and flit out of the nearby hedgerow where they must have been hiding or feeding. […]
Ball Eye Blue stone vases
These exceptional vases are now back in stock in my online shop, just a few, making use of the last of this stone that I have. The markings in this sophisticated, special and very rare stone are exquisite. It’s name is Ball Eye Blue (sometimes nick-named ‘Blue John’). The vases are for dry stems […]