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Dry Stone Wall Maze
The Dry Stone Wall Maze will be situated at the heart of Dalby Forest. The four outer most walls of the maze will measure eighty metres in length each and the walls will stand six feet two inches high. Visitors will follow a short path through the forest to the maze. The entrance into […]
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 […]