I trained and worked as a geologist before re-training as a stonecarver in Dorset.
My work has gradually become less classical and more abstract, taking both macroscopic and microscopic geological structures as inspiration for carved stone panels. These are wall mounted and two dimensional.I often incorporate metal leaf, natural pigments and stone dust.Recently I have been charring pieces of Douglas Fir and emplacing molten lead into the wood. Many of the designs are based on folding photographed in remote areas of Nepal. Others are based on thin section slides of rocks seen under a microscope.
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Scenes from a Nepalese landsca
October 2005 Photograph/Kodak Gold 25x40
Photographs that give context to my carved slate panels.These landscapes and the structural geology seen within them provide my inspiration.
Fold Event Nine
June 2004 Oxidised slate 60x60x1.5
Carved slate panel based on folded quartz vein.
Folds 4, 5 and 6.
2003 and 2004 Carved slate Each panel is 120x60x2
Three carved slate panels based on folding seen in banded gneiss in Nepal.
Detail of Fold 4. (wall mounted)
2003 Oxidised slate 120x60x2
Detail of carved slate panel based on geological structures.
Phoenix Gallery Exeter Oct 2007
Royal Theatre Plymouth Nov 2005
Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum (Annual exhibits)
Southgate Gallery Exeter (Regular exhibits)
Chagford sculpture Garden (Regular exhibits)
Numerous smaller galleries and open exhibitions.
Future shows
February 2007 The Cutteridge Show, E-mail for details...