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Walled Kitchen Gardens and Medicinal Plants
What a delight and pleasure it is to arrive at Scampston Hall Walled Garden on a balmy summer’s evening. Sometimes the beauty of plants and gardens makes you cry doesn’t it? I couldn’t help it, more than once my eyes filled up with tears – I pretended to be scrutinizing bees in the borders […]
Kestrel company
When Kestrels are around you jolly well know about it. They’re noisy birds. I saw one on my way to the workshop in early March, further down the lane and was pleased, having not seen them here before. By late March they were close-by, sitting on fence posts, and obviously checking me out. At […]
Sculpture in the Garden
And what a beautiful garden it is. Here are images of my work at the Streamside Sculpture Trail at RHS Garden Harlow Carr. I walked the streamside path myself – it took ages as I stopped and took in the beauty of the planting in this garden and marvelled at the creativity and talent […]
Streamside Sculpture Trail
I carved the Kingfisher specially for the Streamside Sculpture Trail which is currently showing at RHS Garden Harlow Carr and runs throughout June. Do you remember the first time you saw a Kingfisher? There’s usually just a flash of blue and sometimes you hear their call. My very first sighting was like that, […]
Otter Streamside
Today I delivered and set up pieces at RHS Garden Harlow Carr for the Streamside Sculpture Trail which is on during June. At the gate I met a similarly loaded vehicle, with sculpture padded and strapped for the journey – and in the gardens other sculptors busy setting out their pieces. One of my […]
New Chisels
Great excitement in the workshop today – it always is when I get new tools. I unwrapped them slowly, meticulously and laid them out – three chisels, primarily for lettercutting, but they’ll get to carve too. They’re pristine, the steel clean and the tungsten carbide tips perfect, the blue coating friendly and reassuring. I […]
Happy Easter Wishes
H A P P Y E A S T E R Lots of wishes for a very happy Easter time – I’ve been practicing my slate carving and had planned to have an appropriate stone Easter image, a goose with egg, for you in celebration – but time ran out! Here are work in […]
The Art Market YORK
‘Congratulations!’ it said – an email I’ve just received from The Art Market YORK to say that I have been selected to exhibit at their show in October 2016. I had a conversation towards the end of last year with some local artist friends Janet and Richard Burdon, photographers who spoke very highly of […]
Stone Vases
Many years ago I saw the work of Mitsuru Koga and discovered his beautifull Sea Stone Works – miniature vases made from stones he had collected on the beach. The whole concept behind the work appeals – to quote ‘I look for really beautiful stones, finding beautiful stones starts the process of creating’ […]