Carvings with Stories: a blog about woodcarving

My name is Alistair Park and I'm a professional carver who is based in Bristol, England. I've been carving for over twenty-eight years and I also enjoy teaching my skills to people of all ages. You'll find posts here about all kinds of things to do with carving; the work that I do, the people that I meet and the things that I see which inspire me. Please feel free to comment on anything of interest, it'd be great to hear from you!

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Documenting the hidden world of the bell ringers: making a peal board

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  What is a peal board? Well, before this commission in 2022 I'd never heard of one either. Making it gave a chance to see a tiny glimps...
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Friday, 11 March 2022

'New Beginnings' - collaborating with artist Luke Jerram on his new sculpture in Bristol

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  Luke Jerram is a Bristol-based artist (on the left in the photo above) whose work is known around the world. So it was very exciting to be...
Thursday, 10 January 2019

Inuit stone carving - a detective story

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When I was much, much younger, long before I discovered carving, my father came into the room one day and gave me a stone sculpture of ...
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Monday, 3 December 2018

Woody street art in Bristol

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Bristol has a lot of interesting street art away from the Banksy pieces that many people know and the large works done for Upfest in Southvi...
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Saturday, 17 November 2018

Green men and a bowing crow - 'In the Downbelow'

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I went into the crypt under the church of St John on the Wall in Bristol today, to see 'In the Downbelow', the latest exhibition by...
Wednesday, 12 September 2018

The Binaural Diaries visit the woodyard - field recording the sounds of woodworking

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The Binaural Diaries is a project run by Ollie Hall. He records sounds and publishes them online. It started as a way of collecting interes...

Spoon carving at Boiling Wells in Bristol, with the Boiling Wellness group

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In July, I got the welcome chance to return to Boiling Wells in St Werburghs to teach spoon carving.  After four and a half yea...
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Alistair
I have been carving regularly since 1994, although I remember having a knife taken off me at school when I was about 10 years old- some places are more suited to practising whittling than others!
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