I was contacted by Jacky of JC Interiors ( www.jcinteriorsltd.co.uk), Wetherby, regarding a sign for one of her clients. Apparently the piece of wood she had been given by the client

  The last of seven two-hour sessions saw the completion of many if not all of the carvings, which was a fair achievement considering the format of the workshops was

A nice interlude between shinning up and down ladders carving tree stumps, I worked on this from the confines of my shed (sorry, “studio”) in the dry and (slightly) warm,

Beverley Folk Festival have got a posh new website, and they’ve used a very large picture of myself manning the stall at one of the previous festivals, which is very

We recently paid a visit to the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull to view the latest poppy installation by Martin Waters, “Eleven”; Martin has been working on these poppy installations

Only one more session to go at Hedon so most participants are nearing completion, while for others it was more of a taster session.      

Oiling the three trees, the finishing touch to the carving.     More pictures will follow on the gallery pages.  

I think weather forecasts are just sent to confuse us; after waking on Sunday morning to heavy rain, I checked the forecast for Driffield to learn that between 11am and

There’s a large knotted spot on the centre trunk which is beyond chiselling flat, so the space for the musical notation scrolling down was limited. Still, with the bark off,

The musical notation was going to begin on the middle stump, continuing on the third stump around the guitarist. I’d left an area under the elephant’s ear for the scroll,