Tag: Carving
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carving place
Around a scratched and gouged workbench a group of Syrian men (and one notable Iraqi) came together to share skills, songs, stories, and to make a woodcarving. For some, this was a chance to reconnect with old tools that they knew so well from home, to share their exquisite talent & joy in making. Others,…
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Revealing The Treasure
Pictures from last months relief carving class. Warm light, playing over subtle tactile traces, left as our students stripped away whatever wood wasn’t necessary for telling their own creation stories: Tales that sometimes shifted in the making/telling. Watching the tools move over the wood, skillfully revealing a little more of these beautiful designs each moment…
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A Fine Fleet of Vessels
Remembering friends gathered by a well fed fire. Kettle boiling constantly, whistling a wedding march. It was a beautiful way to spend a December day, a privilege for our family to join in the Nag Do (not a stag do) celebrations before Jeff and Jo’s wedding. Over the day rough cherry logs were split, carved…
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Spooning
A trio of spoons whittled and hewed, from trunk to tableware, in just one day. One Goliath and two Davids, ash & honey locust sawn & split, crazy sapwood scent of fresh bread dough! A trio of makers learning, not only how to make a spoon, but the skills to work with wood, to follow…
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As seen on TV…
Just off camera to the left! Blink and you’ll miss it. The commission to create not one, but a trio, of identical drinking bowls arrived shortly before Christmas; A present perhaps? A set of three as a gift? No, props for CBBC’s fourth series of Wolfblood! In last night’s episode the healing concoction was ground…
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Stools with a story
While we’re on the subject of stools, here are some splendid seats carved lovingly in the Meadows at the end of last year. The stools tell the stories of the hands that made them; each one a unique piece of furniture. They also add a new chapter to the lives of the 150 year old…
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Getting some relief
A wonderful day spent this weekend with talented members from the Rufford Arts Society, all relative newcomers to the craft. Precise mallet blows resounding regular as clockwork resulted in some beautiful, tactile and ambitious relief carvings. I came away inspired too, by the willingness to experiment, general fearlessness and good humour! Even their practice peices…
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Hush hush
For the last few days, we’ve been sealed in the workshop carving away at a really interesting and fun commission for the BBC… It’s all very cloak & dagger, we can’t show or tell any more than this at the moment!
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The year turns again…
It must be winter, we’re sat beside the roaring fire whittling this year’s elf population, while the stragglers from last year look on in horror or delight… If you’d like to meet any of these firendly fellows you’ll find them, us, and a load of handmade bowls, spoons, puppets, toys & more besides for sale…