Tag: Garden Sculpture
Summer Exhibition Collection
The Magpie Contemporary Art Summer Exhibition opens this week – a warm welcome to this curated show inspired by the garden. My sculpture will be exhibited alongside beautiful original art and craft in a contemporary home gallery. Garden sculpture in stone – made to feel found rather than placed – all the pieces are […]
How to place a sculpture in the garden
In the beautiful spring sunshine I’ve been quietly concentrating on carving a small Rabbit sculpture. The Rabbit is caught mid-groom – body folded in on itself. She is not posing, or performing, she’s just being. Utterly at ease in her own world. Even in stone her shape suggests warmth and softness. You can feel […]
Boar in the Woods
Beneath the trees where nobody sees They’ll hide and seek as long as they please These are a couple of lines from Teddy Bear’s Picnic song – ‘If you go down to the woods today’. I remember singing it as a youngster, but never really understanding it. Not that it demanded any great interpretation […]
Magpie Contemporary Art – Exhibition
I’ll be showing sculpture at the Magpie Contemporary Art Summer Exhibition in May. The gallery opens out onto a garden so you can browse the sunshine filled space and meander through to the outdoors where pieces are beautifully curated in a natural and inspiring setting. This piece is Garden Bird carved in Tadcaster Limestone. […]
The Early Bird
The Early Bird garden sculpture. There’s such a feeling of energy with leaf buds appearing on the trees and signs of growth and greenery. The garden calls. Birdsong, seedlings, tidying and compost digging – all in the Spring sunshine and accompanied by a following of small garden birds, singing and searching in the newly […]
A partner for Pigeon
A pair of Pigeons sculpture carved in Ancaster Weatherbed Limestone. I made a partner for Pigeon and they’re getting along nicely. The Pigeons in the field by my workshop are busy collecting twigs and are clearly paired up. There’s quite a flock, which rise up with a clatter and I look to see what […]
Sculpted Shell-shaped Birdbath
Sculpted shell-shaped Birdbath with graceful fluted rim carved in fine Yorkstone. Stages showing the detail and process of carving the natural stone shell-shaped Birdbath from a block of raw stone through roughing out, shaping and finishing the surface of this garden sculpture. Shell Birdbath garden sculpture – Howley Park Sandstone – 24″ x 20″ […]
The Unspotted Crake
For this sculpture, I chose a typical Crake pose – here’s how the RSPB describes this bird. ‘Spotted Crakes tend to skulk in thick cover and walk with their body close to the ground and tail flicking. They swim with a jerky action, like that of the Moorhen. If surprised in the open […]
Flutter in Flowers
The time of the singing of the birds is come, and flowers appear. When I was carving this sculpture, which I call Flutter, I thought of it being in a garden surrounded by spring flowers. Flutter sculpture in Tadcaster Limestone – details in my brochure.
Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens – exhibition
Chips are flying and new sculpture is taking shape. The weeks before an exhibition are always exciting – even if there’s a bit of a frenzy in the workshop getting sculpture finished on time. Nothing like an exhibition deadline to galvanise arms into action and focus the mind. This is Bird in a Tree […]