Welcome to Graeme Mitcheson Stone Carving

In terms of output, stone carving 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.

'Mytilus Edilius' Kilkenny Limestone, Conwy Quay 2007