FREESTANDING WORKS
Mainly older works, an assortment of styles and sizes although most are smaller works to suit
indoor locations.
I only have the one large work displayed, a special work to commemorate the passing of a young
man.
Of late I have started sitting some of the smaller panels on legs so they can be displayed on a
table or benchtop. Very easy to display, wonderful talking points
Stone sculpting is something I started in the late 1990’s after it became apparent
that I would not be able to continue Bone Carving due to hand issues. The
observation at the time was that I could still hold a hammer and chisel.......
It was a good move, very satisfying and not half as fiddly as the bone carving
although my choice of stone did not really allow for the finer detail I was used to
creating. This could have been mitigated by using much harder stone but that = time
and expense and I had things to express so I settled on the then for me relatively
local Oamaru Stone, a limestone that had a nice balance between speed, detail,
cost.
The essence of this stone choice is it’s even lightness rather than stone patterning,
rather the works becoming a sculpting of light rather than of stone.
Click on any of the sections below to see the respective galleries and please be
aware some of the earlier pieces have marginal photos at best.
