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, 27 September 2016

Revisiting Eggenfelden: my first large woodcarving and the first piece made using chisels, carved and painted over twenty years ago

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In the summer of 1995, an international environmental work camp was held outside Eggenfelden in Bavaria. I was the only British person t...
Saturday, 24 September 2016

The woodcarving tradition of the Ammergauer Alps: visiting Oberammergau and Hans-Joachim Seitfudem's studio in Bad Kohlgrub

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The town of Oberammergau is in Bavaria, the most south-easterly state in Germany, not far from the border with Austria. It is famous fo...
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Monday, 5 September 2016

Writing a blog about woodcarving and wondering: what keeps bloggers going?

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Sometimes it is hard to find the time to keep writing blog posts. Recently, it has certainly felt that way. It isn...
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Thursday, 21 July 2016

'Hollow', an art installation at the University of Bristol using timbers from 10,000 different species of tree

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It would probably be fair to say that I'm fascinated by different kinds of timber to the point of being a wood nerd, so I was very in...
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Sunday, 19 June 2016

Timber-framed houses along Friar Street in Worcester- wonky buildings, planning using geometry and the daisy wheel

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Worcester has quite a few surviving timber-framed buildings and many of them can be found along Friar Street, in the city centre. Halfway al...
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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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