Tag: Garden Sculpture
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 […]