I was down at Staunton Harold in Leicestershire last week and was happy to see that one of the 1st carvings that I ever made is still going strong. I made it when I was at Loughborough Art College in 1994 and it formed part of my degree show. It was then bought [...]
What a busy few days. Last week I travelled to Llandudno in North Wales where I worked in Marl Hall woods carving 11 way markers. I did cheat slightly, managing to carve 5 in the workshop before installing them in the woods. The others were carved into existing limestone rocks (of varying quality) and walls in the [...]
On friday I travelled up to Newcastle upon Tyne with the circular Portland Limestone sculpture for the Church of the Holy Nativity in Westerhope. Following the monsoon that drenched us upon our arrival, the piece was hoisted into place and now forms the focal point of the newly relandscaped garden.
As you can see I have been very busy lately completing these 2 sculptures. The foreground sculpture is for the Church of the Holy Nativity in Newcastle and will be installed in the next week or so. It is carved from Portland Limestone and represents peace through the carving of the olive branches, if you [...]
I popped up to Mountsorrel the other day to see how Albert was getting on. Turns out he is doing just fine. Albert was the Victorian quarry worker who inspired this granite sculpture who is sited at the old quarry site in Mountsorrel in Leicestershire. In the foreground, the tiny granite chippings of the same [...]
As I come to the end of one project, so another begins. In the coming months I will be installing a new artwork for Regents Court Embankment in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Over the last few weeks, I have been developing designs for the steep enbankment which can been seen from a considerable distance as you approach [...]
Every now and again I come across a picture of a sculpture that I have not seen for a long time. The sculptures below are on the banks of the canal in Harlow in Essex, and look better today, now that they have weathered a little, than when I installed them over 5 years ago. If [...]
The sculpture that I created for a site in Hollingwood near Chesterfield was unveiled last week. The piece reflects the changing nature of the village from its former industrial, coal mining past to a village which now proudly boasts a beautiful, regenerated stretch of the Chesterfield canal. The piece was unveiled by the mayor of Chesterfield [...]
A few years back, I made a series of 10 sculptures for a park in Newbiggin by the Sea in Northumberland. One of the pieces was this sculpture of an eager dog with his stick. It is carved from Derbyshire Sandstone and weighs around 2 tonnes. Some time after it was installed, some building work [...]
The Sir Bobby Robson Memorial Garden has won a commendation for landscape design after finishing as runner up at the Lord Mayors Design Awards in Newcastle. The sculpture that was installed in May formed the focal point of the garden so I am delighted that it has been recognised, many congratulations to landscape architect Richard Barnes who was [...]
