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!

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Showing posts with label oak. Show all posts
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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Monday, 15 January 2018

Making replicas of the earliest objects made by woodturning ever found in Britain, from Whitehorse hill on Dartmoor

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I like woodturning. It's a nice compliment to my carving work and there's also something that feels quite relaxing about putting the...
Friday, 22 December 2017

Demonstrating relief carving techniques at a sign maker's trade fair - SignLink Live 2017

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I've done many things as a woodcarver over the last twenty three years but one thing I've never tried is demonstrating at a tra...
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, 1 February 2017

A drum stool with a difference! Making carved wooden drums as seats

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The story of this project begins last summer... I had been invited to make some carvings for Gwalia farm near Machynlleth in North Wales,...
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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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