With work on the granite sculptures for Quorn complete and ready for installation, I nipped up to Woodwork Stone near Leeds this morning with the intention of selecting a boulder for my next project. It is a carving to be sited sited outside of an elderly residential development in Clay Cross near Chesterfield. The nature [...]
On a visit back to my native north east last weekend, I called into the Baltic to have a peak at the Daniel Buren exhibition. Fortunately the sun was shining which allowed the coloured glass ceiling panels to project stunning coloured reflections onto the floor of the gallery space. The colours are bounced around the [...]
Leicester Cathedral have announced that the of the remains of Richard III will be reinterred on the 26th of March 2015. You may have read a previous post that I was hopeful of carving the tomb for the former King of England whose remains were dramatically unearthed in a Leicester car park in 2012. Throughout [...]
To commemorate the extraordinary life of Sir Bobby Robson, the Football Association have declared today as Sir Bobby Robson Day as it is 5 years since his death. The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation is still going strong today and continues to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for cancer research and treatment. Needless to say, [...]
The Naval Service Memorial was dedicated yesterday by Prince Michael of Kent in front of around 2500 people at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. It was a fantastic occasion that was marked by a fly past, a band, over 100 standards and 1500 veterans. It is the culmination of over a year of hard [...]
It has taken the best part of 18 months to get to this point but I am delighted to say that the coloured glass Naval Service Memorial was finally installed this week at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. The memorial sculpture which consists of 13 panels of coloured glass, a carved Kilkenny Limestone figure [...]
Although on display in the Leicestershire market town of Lutterworth for the best part of a year, the horse sculpture that I worked on last year was finally unveiled this week. The giant art installation which consists of 4 galloping white horses stretches 22m along an embankment which is visible for some distance as you [...]
It is quite a story how John Smith, a shoemakers son from a small Derbyshire village came to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour. Relatives of this great man gathered in the grounds of Ticknall Village Hall yesterday to see the plaque unveiled by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire, Mr. Willaim Tucker. John [...]
The project to create 4 horses on an embankment in Lutterworth is coming along nicely with almost 2 of the 4 horses complete. Formerly a busy stagecoach route, the curved embankment provides a perfect canvas for the sculpture. So far public feedback has been terrific and bodes well for when the work in finished in [...]
The Bevin Boys were finally given the recognition they deserve today when the memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire was unveild today by HRH the Countess Of Wessex. The event was attended by dozens of Bevin Boys from all over the Country while the National Press were out in big numbers to mark [...]
