Sculpture
Sculpture – shaping stone
Pushing into the material. Imagining the line.
Have we angered Sylph
Or was it Zeus, god of storms, thundering through the night on his chariot drawn by the four horse-shaped winds. Something disturbed the elements, the agitation kept me awake for hours. Perhaps it was needed – this morning is clean and calm and gentle. The windless warm sun makes it difficult to remember the ferocious power nature roared […]
Rabbit
This is the result of my chipping – a Rabbit sculpture carved in Portugese Rose marble. Last year when I was collecting from one of the nests my geese were laying in, there was a little rabbit sitting right in the middle among the eggs, all cosy. I was able to get very close and […]
Little by Little
….. chip by chip
The White Fox Gallery
This is White Fox – it’s a little piece I carved to celebrate my forthcoming exhibition at the White Fox Gallery. I’ll be showing work as a guest artist, alongside another stone carver Natasha Smith, whose work is also inspired by the natural world, following themes such as shells, leaves, insects, clouds, fossils and hollows – I’m […]
Snow Stones
Snow fall and we’re covered in white. The blanket layer envelopes, hushes and quietens – the inside of my workshed contains all my movements, thoughts, breaths – held by the covering, temporarily pocketed, educating by their shapes. Heightened senses. Soft white, smooth white, hard white, cold white, textured white, stone white – silent white. […]
NYOS 2015
My workshop will be open over the weekends of 6th/7th June & 13th/14th June, 2015 as part of the North Yorkshire Open Studios event. I’m really pleased to have been selected for NYOS 15 – there’s lots of new work to show you and exciting developments to tell you about. I’ll be adding details to my Open […]
A Frost Feathered Happy New Year
I’m so delighted to see this lovely picture! I received it this morning from a customer, who bought my Fledglings sculpture, and this is a view of it in their beautiful garden- with all the little birds ‘frost feathered’. Looks as if we will see out the year all icy and frozen – but a […]
A Big Birdbath
I’ve been making a big Birdbath – certainly big for me, in fact I think it is the largest one I’ve ever carved. At just over 4 feet square, the top took quite a lot of chiseling out. Here I’m making the bowl shape which will be filled with water for the birds to splosh around in and […]
Life Drawing Class – Geometric shapes
On Tuesday our life drawing lesson was to concentrate on geometric shapes. A lot of subjects can be simplified to geometric shapes, such as boxes, pyramids, cylinders, and spheres. Instead of starting with the large shapes on paper, you simplify your subject in 3-D. I was rather excited by this exercise and quickly got […]