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!

Thursday, 15 December 2016

'Starman', a portrait of David Bowie carved in wood

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They are strange, the routes that lead into some projects.  I had signed up to have a stall at the St Werburghs Community Centre C...
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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