Bristol Festival of Stone

I am going to be taking part in the Bristol Festival of Stone in June. I will be taking part in the carving competition from Wednesday 5th to Saturday 8th. So, 4 days to carve a block of Bath stone (400x400x600mm) into something interesting. I haven’t done a carving festival before so it’s going to be a new experience, It looks like its going to be a great event; a real festival atmosphere with music and talks and taster sessions. If your in Bristol come and check it out, and come and say hello. Here’s a link to the event if you want to find out more. http://festivalofstone.com/

Cold

Cold in the studio today. I’ve got a good radiant heater and thermal overall’s that are like wearing a sleeping bag, but my hands were still cold.

So, I strapped a fan heater to my easel to blast warm air over my hands. Fantastic!

Frosty, misty, Christmas winter loveliness

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What an amazing start to the day. The frosted landscape saturated in pink sunrise light was spectacular. I had to go out with the camera and take some snaps.

Sales room

I’ve added a “sales room” to the blog, here to showcase work that is for sale, off the peg and ready to go. So, if your still looking for that unique Christmas present…

Figure Ground.

I am working on lots of little jobs at the moment. Cremation tablets and house signs are the order of the day. I carved this number on friday for a retired architect I have worked for from time to time. It is based on a font he sourced. I don’t know which one but I will let you know if I find out. It is unusual to carve u shaped letters like this instead of v shaped letters. And rather effective I think with bold forms like these. What I particularly like about these are the shapes of the negative forms, inside and between the numbers. They put me in mind of the prints of the Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chilida. A master of positive and negative forms and a great sculptor of spaces.

The one that got away

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I made the shortlist for lead artist on a public art project in Trowbridge. It was a housing development by Newland homes on the site of the former Ushers brewery bottling plant. So I proposed a series of beer bottle … Continue reading →

The Cotswold Way Marker. Completed!

Here it is finally!

Its taken a while to take and load up a good photograph, but here it is finally completed. October was completely mad and I’ve got a bit behind on posting all the news – I will try and catch up this week with some pictures of the unveiling, which was a wonderful event, and also the show at Walcot Chapel.