Sculpture
Direct Carving in Stone
Direct carving, carving direct – ever since I picked up my first hammer and chisel I’ve been working stone in this way. I didn’t know it had a name, or that at one time it was considered revolutionary. I just took for granted it was the way sculpture came into being and was how […]
Bird with a long tail
A little while ago I showed you progress of Long-tailed bird on my workbench being carved – the finished sculpture sits next to me now looking out of the window at a rather blustery day. I’ve just been updating my website to include Long Tailed Bird, so you can see the final piece and […]
Hand Carved Lettering v machined
Usually it is the mass produced, machine method and tooling that seeks to emulate the skill, beauty and craftsmanship of hand carved lettering in stone. Many methods are used, sandblasting, routing, and robots with special diamond tips rotating at super-fast speeds, but I’m not sure they quite replace me and my chisel just yet, […]
Heard but not seen … until now
Just the other day I saw a Grasshopper for the first time ever – I hear them a lot and follow the sound, which, when I get close, stops. It then starts up again nearby. I’ve stalked grasshoppers, lain in wait, scanned from a distance with binoculars but never before been lucky. If I’m […]
Autumn Sculpture Trail
RHS Garden Harlow Carr looked magnificent yesterday when I delivered my pieces for the Autumn Sculpture Trail. There are around 40 sculptures placed around the garden and the RHS have published a Trail map so you can find them all. My pieces are along the streamside, in a little cluster near one another – […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]