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!

Showing posts with label historical carving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical carving. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 May 2017

Seventeenth century carvings, filming locations and stories of ghosts at Chavenage house in Gloucestershire

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Chavenage House is situated near Tetbury in the Cotswolds . It may seem familiar to some readers, as it's been used as a filming l...
Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Ancient and modern woodworking on the Somerset Levels

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The Avalon Marshes are three nature reserves (Shapwick Heath, Westhay Moor and Ham Wall) on the Somerset Levels , not far from Glastonbury...
Saturday, 24 September 2016

The woodcarving tradition of the Ammergauer Alps: visiting Oberammergau and Hans-Joachim Seitfudem's studio in Bad Kohlgrub

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The town of Oberammergau is in Bavaria, the most south-easterly state in Germany, not far from the border with Austria. It is famous fo...
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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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