I was delighted to be asked to participate in the Art on the Greenway project ~ funded by the Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Chase Landscape Partnership, myself and several

When I received this photo from a client showing a fairly uninspiring thin sycamore stump, I realised it would take some thought in figuring out a design; all I could

This was a very enjoyable piece to carve ~ a large oak panel with a Green Man design, bold enough to be easily seen once it was in position high

Things are very different for young people at school these days: the world has changed, and education has moved away from lessons using hand tools towards IT and other space-age

With hares being one of my favourite creatures, I was delighted to be asked to carve this one ~ almost-life-sized, sitting on a base. The mythology and folklore surrounding hares

Pictures from the final session of the Mires Beck woodcarving course ~ great fun as usual, with a very enthusiastic and lovely group of participants!

The last log to be carved in Bluebell Wood, Sewerby Hall, and this was probably the oddest shape of the lot. Once I’d stripped some bark off, the forked end

The penultimate carving at Sewerby Hall’s Bluebell Wood, and this log didn’t take much thinking about ~ it had to be a Fairy Tower! The shape really couldn’t suggest anything

This was another log with quite a small diameter, so on this occasion I thought I’d carve someone equally small ~ a pixie baby, to be precise. I gave him

This log was similar to the one used for the “Perching Gnome”, so I considered a similar 3 dimensional piece ~ until I tried moving it: it was heavy. Really