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!

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Recording the dawn chorus at Boiling Wells, Bristol

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We were up before dawn on the 28th of May, to get to Boiling Wells in St Werburghs in time to record the dawn chorus. I've attached some...
Sunday, 19 May 2013

Knowle Parish Church, with its 15th century oak rood screen

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The parish church in Knowle, a village near Birmingham in the West Midlands, was consecrated in 1403. It is built from the local red sa...

Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter- the last remaining industrial quarter in Birmingham, with 200 protected buildings that survived wartime bombs

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This area lies about a mile outside Birmingham city centre, in an area called Hockley. The city has always had a bit of a reputation for bei...
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Friday, 17 May 2013

Making a goat play ramp structure at Boiling Wells for St Werburghs City farm

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A group of volunteers from Lloyds bank came to the farm today as part of 'Give and Gain Day', when businesses send their staff out o...
Thursday, 16 May 2013

Some oak signs that I've carved recently

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I've been carving a few oak signs for commissions recently and thought it might be nice to share a couple of them here. More pictu...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Wood and stone carvings in the Palácio de Pena near Sintra, Portugal

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This has to be one of the world's most bonkers palaces. The Palácio de Pena was built between 1842 and 1854 by the king-consort, Don Fer...
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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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