Workshop
Scraping my name from the wall
On Monday I took down my exhibition The Museum as Muse – it happened much more quickly than the time taken to set up! Soon I was trundling back to the workshop with my sculpture. It felt rather sad in a way, the vinyl lettering spelling my name and announcing the exhibition, scraped […]
Frosty Start
A frosty, foggy start this morning – stone in the workshop was cold to handle and chisels icy. In no time though the sun had burned through and I was shedding layers and working outside. The roof of the workshed steamed. Everything looks magic on mornings like this.
Exhibition Review by Sue Gough
I’m having a small celebration here as my exhibition at the Ryedale Folk Museum, The Museum as Muse has just got a review. It is penned by Sue Gough, who is Chair of Ryedale Artworks and a full-time artist herself. You can read it over on her blog. It is important to me – […]
Video – sculptor at work!
During the preparation, and as part of the promotion for my exhibition The Museum as Muse at The Gallery, Ryedale Folk Museum – I thought it would be a great idea to show my work, and thinking behind pieces made, in a short video. It is part of a series of videos made by David […]
Goose Feather Quill
At the moment my geese are moulting and feathers are strewn all about at the workshop – mostly they are the downy small ones, but there have been some larger wing feathers too. Artist, painter and printmaker John Walker (who I met on Facebook) suggested that I should have a go at drawing with the […]
Moving Stones
I love this image by Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878-1955) painter, etcher and printmaker, of men moving stone. I’ve done this so many times – look, the old man there has a bar to lever the stone free and dislodge it, so his companion can get a hold. It is a beautiful print, showing […]
Routine Maintenance – making my forklift smile!
Lately my forklift has been showing signs of age and becoming temperamental. Perhaps it was just a reminder to me to do some routine maintenance. Yesterday I got down to it and found I needed a new battery and alternator. With these fitted, oil and water checks done, and greasing all round, I’ve got my […]
Work Boots
When I first got these boots they were stiff and actually, a bit uncomfortable. I know from having had many pairs of work boots in the past, that this is just a temporary inconvenience. Very soon they lose their new polish and ‘wear-in’. Steel-toe-capped boots have saved my feet on many occasions! I’ve rested stone […]