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 mysterious stone carvings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mysterious stone carvings. Show all posts
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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Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Passau: the beautiful baroque city where three rivers meet

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Passau is a city in Bavaria, in the south-east of Germany. It is not far from the borders with Austria and the Czech Republic.  The ci...
Monday, 1 September 2014

A strange Norman stone carving in St Nicholas' church, Combe St Nicholas, Somerset

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While visiting this church for a wedding, I noticed the strange carved stone capital on a pillar near the north entrance. Apparently, i...
Monday, 4 August 2014

Woodcarving and woodworking tools seen at the British Museum; from the Stone Ages to the Anglo-Saxons in Northern Europe

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After writing about ancient Egyptian woodworking and tools from ancient Nubia and Mesopotamia , it's time to head north and look at Eur...
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Monday, 28 July 2014

The mysterious carved symbols on the kerbstones of London

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Whilst walking from Oxford Street through Soho in London, I saw this symbol carved into the kerbstone at my feet, then another further ...
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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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