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!

Friday, 28 February 2014

Sculptures that contrast carved areas with uncarved surfaces; The Idea emerging from the Uncarved Block

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One of the most charged moments in producing many carvings, particularly when whittling a shape from a piece of rough timber, is the mome...
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Friday, 14 February 2014

More extreme wood workshops for Touchwood Enterprises!

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The last two days have been spent in Dorset, working with my friends at Touchwood Enterprises to deliver a bench and run carving workshops a...
Friday, 7 February 2014

Ancient Egyptian wood carving and stone carving tools

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Whilst looking around the museum in Bristol , I saw these ancient carving tools on display and thought it might be nice to share them wit...
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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Bristol's mayor visits my studio

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A couple of days ago George Ferguson, the mayor of Bristol, visited our workshops to have a look at the work being produced there. He s...
Friday, 24 January 2014

The Daisy Field bench has been installed!

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Yesterday, the bench was installed at the Daisy Field in Shirehampton and I went along to help. It looks great, situated next to a small...

The Boiling Wells roundhouse roof- eight months on.

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Here's a couple of images of the repaired roundhouse roof, eight months after the last of the sedum had been laid. It's looking...
Friday, 20 December 2013

Spectacular carvings by Thomas Paty and John Michael Rysbrack in Redland Chapel, Bristol

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Redland chapel is situated in a suburb of Bristol. It was opened in October 1743 and was commissioned by John Cossins as a private chape...
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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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