Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Carving a rabbit onto a wooden bench

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This elm bench seat had already been made by Alex Arthur at the Woodworks Project in Bath. He suggested to the client that I could carve t...
Saturday, 5 March 2016

The King Charles House in Worcester; a warning in a pub and a fleeing king

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On a recent visit to Worcester, I went into the King Charles House on New Street. The timber-framed building looks like an old and historic...
Saturday, 30 January 2016

Some funny characters in a carving commission

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Jim Sharples  is a very skilled furniture designer and maker based in Bristol. He needed some carvings on his latest project and asked me if...
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Carving workshops and making a bench for LinkAge in Lawrence Weston, Bristol with younger and older participants

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Running workshops for LinkAge is always a lot of fun. They organise projects to try and get young and old people working together, encourag...

Carving and painting a sign in Greek

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This one was a first for me: creating an oak sign with the wording in Greek (not a language that I'm familiar with). It will be hung on ...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Teaching woodcarving at Nailsea school, near Bristol: carving a Green Man into a log of Ash wood

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On the weekend before Christmas, I went back to Nailsea school to do some more woodcarving tuition. After teaching a very enjoyable  sessi...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Another hidden carved treasure in Bristol: the Canynges fireplace in the Savage's wigwam and the secret meaning of the Judgement of Solomon

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Regular readers of this blog (thank you, by the way!) will know that I'm very interested in older British carvings and the things that t...