The installation of the sandstone sculpture for Clay Cross in Derbyshire went smoothly last week. The piece which reflects the changing face of the town sits at the entrance to a new housing complex. It is around 1.8 metres tall and is carved in a 2 tonne boulder of Woodwork Sandstone. I will add final [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 knight for Caerphilly castle was successfully installed yesterday. We managed to cross the 3 rickity wooden bridges into the castle with no alarms before the intricately carved sandstone sculpture was hoisted into position under the fighting tower. The piece will shortly be joined by a number of other artworks in and around the castle [...]
Sadly "Gust", a stone sculpture that I made for my degree show in 1995, has been toppled from its perch in the courtyard of the Ferrers Centre of Art and Crafts in Leicestershire. I am told that a delivery driver backed into the Cadeby Limestone masterpiece and sent it crashing to the ground, smashing it into [...]
