Worked in ‘Mocha Creme’ Portuguese Limestone and installed at the Wield & Downland open air museum near Chichester.

Here is the working model, only a couple of inches high.

My piece won the carving competition at St Laurence church, Ludlow, Shropshire this year. The piece took 20 hours to carve and was sold along with the other competition pieces to raise funds for the churches upkeep.

This amazing piece, by Saul Sheldon, won the carvers vote in the competition.

And here are a few more carvings from the competition, there were 23 fantastic carvers in total some independent & others from various Cathedral workshops.

The standard was very high and they raised £4300 for the church.

I restored this plaque using the Micro Abrasive system, then chemically. The break was pinned with stone resin and the fracture filled with Paraloid resin mixed with Coade Stone powder.

The final design which will be slightly adjusted and perfected when I transfer onto my stone.

Much of this will then be gilded when the mansion is re-opened.

1st December 2010

Loosely roughing out forms

Day 2

2nd December 2010

Developing detail, focusing on the mane and face. Paws are very tricky.

Liking the deranged expression.

Day 3

Focusing on axe detail and flow of the mane

Day 4

The Strawberry Flower crown and musculature

Day 5

Cleaning up, undercutting and concentrating on catching light and shadow when lit from above

And here are the other two!

And here they are after I have installed them above the main entrance at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham.

Frozen Lake

I hope to carve a series of Insects and Arachnids.  I’m sure they are getting bigger by the year, so you can really see the amazing patterns on their abdomens.