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, 22 November 2016

Repairing damaged African sculptures, made from wood which has been made to look like ebony

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Occasionally I'm asked to repair or restore a damaged sculpture. They have needed repair due to a range of reasons, ranging from we...
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Friday, 28 October 2016

New website!

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Whew! Normally feeling under the weather isn't particularly useful. The latest bout of cold/flu/ sniffles has definitely had a happy o...
Monday, 10 October 2016

When a journeyman goes home: a travelling 'naver' returns to Copenhagen

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I've written before about the tradition of the German travelling journeymen. One post is a more general overview and the other a more d...
Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Passau: the beautiful baroque city where three rivers meet

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Passau is a city in Bavaria, in the south-east of Germany. It is not far from the borders with Austria and the Czech Republic.  The ci...
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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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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