Cattle and sheep sculptures installed in Spalding Saturday saw the unveiling of the cattle and sheep sculptures that have been keeping busy winter. A life sized Lincoln Red cow and bull as well as 7 Lincolnshire long wool sheep now stand proudly in the old cattle and sheep markets of the Lincolnshire town, celebrating the [...]
Celebrating Houghton Regis's straw plaiting heritage with stone I've recently completed a series of 4 sculptures celebrating the straw plaiting heritage of Bedfordshire town, Houghton Regis. Straw plaiting in Houghton Regis was a huge industry. Straw was grown and gathered by the local community before being plaited and either taken to larger market towns such [...]
Half a lifetime carving letters in stone. In December 1995 I set up a small workshop in a craft centre in Leicestershire having left art college earlier that year. My intention was to sell small sculptures from this workshop to the general public. Very quickly it became apparent that this was going be extremely difficult. [...]
Paving artwork unveiled A new paving artwork has been unveiled in Northamptonshire. The design celebrates the Brampton Valley Way, a former railway line, now a 14 mile long cycle route and nature trail in Beckon Fields, Northamptonshire. The paved sculpture incorporates 25m of engraved sandstone paving and runs around the outside of a childrens play [...]
New memorial for Mesothelioma unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum Today saw the dedication of a stone sculpture that I have been working on honouring all serving and veteran members of the British Armed Forces with the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. The memorial sculpture has been installed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. The sculpture [...]
Sculpture unveiled in Wakefield This week saw a sculpture that I have been working on for some time, unveiled in Wakefield in Yorkshire. Titled "Everglow", the 5m tall concrete and glass artwork was commissioned largely by the developers who have a created a major new housing development in the city. The sculpture is inspired by [...]
The sculptures that I have been working on for Caernarfon castle over the past 2 years or so have been completed and installed. The stone sculptures are inspired by the craftsmen who would have worked on the castle, one of the finest examples of its type, built in the middle ages. On entering the castle, [...]
Donington manor repairs Most of my work over many years has been the creation of large scale public art sculpture. Predominantly these sculptures have been in carved stone although occasionally in glass and concrete. Over the years I have taught myself some of the fine arts of working stone including designing and carving letters and [...]
I am making good progress on my latest giant stone sculpture. The sculpture takes the form of a giant pair of hands. It weighs in the region of around 8 tonnes having weighed in at a whopping 14 tonnes when it was delivered to my Leicestershire workshop in December. Despite the dreadful storms over the [...]
I have just taken delivery of a number of blocks of stone which together will help to create a new giant sculpture. The blocks of buff and red sandstone are assembled in layers but will be carved into one huge artwork measuring 3m x 2m x 1m high. The total weight on delivery was probably [...]
