Welcome to Graeme Mitcheson Stone Carving.

Graeme Mitcheson graduated from Loughborough College of Art & Design in 1995 and immediately set up his own stone carving workshop in Leicestershire. He undertakes a whole variety of commissions including major public art sculpture and headstones and also runs weekend carving courses. He also exhibits work at some of the countries leading home and garden exhibitions.

Stone carving was once an occupation like any other; Today, it is a rare almost forgotten art form, actively practiced by only a handful of people.

In terms of output, it is slow and time consuming. It can not compete with the mass produced objects on sale in garden centres, which are cast not carved. A stone carving will never be mass produced, therefore every single piece of work is unique. To create an object from a piece of rock which has been untouched for millions of years is an amazing feeling regardless of how good you believe it to be. Theoretically stone carving is a simple process, the tools we use have a rank order in which we use them while the form of the piece itself depends upon your ideas and your hand eye co-ordination. The finished piece of stone can take on a variety of forms. It could form a piece of public art sculpture, it could be architectural, figurative, abstract, functional, incorporate lettering it could be rustic, traditional or conceptual; Either way, it is a process that cannot be rushed, but one that, given time, can be mastered.

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