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Frosty Start
A frosty, foggy start this morning – stone in the workshop was cold to handle and chisels icy. In no time though the sun had burned through and I was shedding layers and working outside. The roof of the workshed steamed. Everything looks magic on mornings like this.
Nature Table
On Sunday I set out for a walk – just locally. The forecast for the following few days was for terrible storms, torrential rain and gusting winds, and I thought I had better make the most of the fine afternoon. It is ages since I took to the pathways and lanes that circle the […]
Exhibition Review by Sue Gough
I’m having a small celebration here as my exhibition at the Ryedale Folk Museum, The Museum as Muse has just got a review. It is penned by Sue Gough, who is Chair of Ryedale Artworks and a full-time artist herself. You can read it over on her blog. It is important to me – […]
William Tillyer’s Haven
Yesterday afternoon I spent a little time at the Inspired by… Gallery visiting the exhibition Haven by William Tillyer. The exhibition is part of the Art in Yorkshire Goes Contemporary 2013 project and also celebrates William’s 75th Birthday. He’s not an artist I know, so I was really pleased to have the catalogue with […]
Video – sculptor at work!
During the preparation, and as part of the promotion for my exhibition The Museum as Muse at The Gallery, Ryedale Folk Museum – I thought it would be a great idea to show my work, and thinking behind pieces made, in a short video. It is part of a series of videos made by David […]
My Wooden Hippopotamus
When I was young – I’m not sure what age exactly – my Godmother gave me a wooden hippopotamus as a present – I forget too whether it was Birthday or Christmas, or just because she was visiting! I remember at first thinking it was rather strange, but very quickly fell in love with […]
Talk and Tour – the Harrison effect!
As part of my exhibition The Museum as Muse at the Ryedale Folk Museum there was a tour of the collection given by the gallery curator Sally-Ann Smith, and an informal talk, by me, about how the pieces in the exhibition came about. I was really looking forward to the evening, as a number […]
Goose Feather Quill
At the moment my geese are moulting and feathers are strewn all about at the workshop – mostly they are the downy small ones, but there have been some larger wing feathers too. Artist, painter and printmaker John Walker (who I met on Facebook) suggested that I should have a go at drawing with the […]
Apple Picking
The stormy weather of rain and strong winds over the last few days has brought down lots of my apples – so today in the pouring rain I collected them up and picked others ready to fall from the tree. I’m impressed with the harvest – it is only the apple tree’s second year and […]
Moving Stones
I love this image by Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878-1955) painter, etcher and printmaker, of men moving stone. I’ve done this so many times – look, the old man there has a bar to lever the stone free and dislodge it, so his companion can get a hold. It is a beautiful print, showing […]