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In the workshop today – finishing touches
I’ve been putting finishing touches to my Cuckoo sculpture so it will be ready for the Wildlife Sculpture exhibition at RHS Garden Harlow Carr in Harrogate which I’m setting up tomorrow. As can happen with carving, the likeness and look of a piece can change in an instant on removal of the smallest chip […]
Shades of Yellow
A wheat field and its boundary stone wall in matching August colourfulness. Weathered stone and the crackling and rustling of crops ripe for harvest. I’m on a high from champagne and golden tones, of lemon, mustard, ochre, citrine and bright canary – all organised, perfectly balanced and matching in hue, bursting intensity, softness and […]
Wild Pig Sculpture
Wild Pig sculpture carved in Serpentine (with a tan tail).
Essential Form
Essential Form is opening on Sunday 27th August, 2017 at the White Fox Gallery in Coldstream and features my stone sculpture. Here are a couple of Flock members now polished and ready for delivery to the gallery. There will also be stone carving and sculpture in steel, bronze and clay on show. Other sculptors […]
Art& York 2017 – your special invite
I know it seems some time away, but in ‘stone sculpture making’ terms it is no time at all so the event is firmly in my mind. There are pieces I’ll be showing which visitors last year encouraged me to carve, so I’m looking forward to sharing these with you in October, but for […]
In the workshop – a group of birds
I’m not sure how many birds make a flock, a few? A group? I’ve carved six stone birds for my flock. Four in alabaster and two in soapstone. Though similar, all are slightly different in the way they are flying. Gathered ready for final sanding and polishing.
Stonescape
Off-cuts getting on nicely. Such a pretty gathering of Alabaster, Soapstone and red Sandstone.
Four Feathered
My latest bird sculpture is called Four Feathered and carved in Tadcaster Limestone. This stone just loves the moorland colours, soft light and peaty shadows, which are the magic of the North York Moors at this time of year. Here Four Feathered sits filled with heather hues cast from the spreading purple, and blooms […]
Stretching Rabbit Sculpture
After the meadow next to my workshop was cut, I watched rabbits enjoying the stubble and rows of hay. They collected mouthfulls of the drying grass, pawing and digging through it for particular strands to carry off. The geese hiss at them coming through the fence with their bounty – there’s stamping of hind […]
A slither of swallow
Well actually a slither of slate carved into a swallow – though this is the shape I see as they fly past my head and into the shed to their nest on the rafter. Yesterday I heard the faintest chirp, more like a wheeze, and eventually discovered the source. A tiny, wobbly, thin-necked, fresh-hatched […]