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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
White Owl
White Owl – carved in Portland Limestone is currently showing as part of the Winter collection at Norton Way Gallery. The exhibition runs from 23 November to January 25, 2025. View other Owl sculpture
Sculpted Shell-shaped Birdbath
Sculpted shell-shaped Birdbath with graceful fluted rim carved in fine Yorkstone. Stages showing the detail and process of carving the natural stone shell-shaped Birdbath from a block of raw stone through roughing out, shaping and finishing the surface of this garden sculpture. Shell Birdbath garden sculpture – Howley Park Sandstone – 24″ x 20″ […]
Preparations for Garden Festival
Lovely pieces are being finished at the workshop just now, ready for the Borde Hill Garden Festival. As part of the range of garden features I’m exhibiting, are these handsome planters – hand carved as a matching pair in fine Yorkstone, drilled for drainage and ready for magical planting ideas. At the Festival you’ll […]