Galleries: Sculpture

We are surrounded by man-made materials and objects fabricated by obscure factory process. While all the great carvings of the world have been made essentially the same way, by reducing a block of stone to reveal the form inside, often by hand. This reductive simplicity and the wonderful variety of stones with their geological history of our landscape are what attracts me to the art.

Perpetual motion detail

Portland stone 550mm x 550mm x 160mm

A sculpture which is part inspired by Chinese imagery and partly through Carlo Rovelli's musings on the 3sphere which best describes the shape of the universe.

Perpetual motion

Portland stone on Spruce base 550mm x 550mm x 160mm

Night Sky, Clouds across the Moon

Weardale Limestone on Beech base

For sale

Leaping fish

Cornish Breccia on Serpentine base 250mm x 200mm x 180mm

Cornwall is very rich in volcanic geology. Here, the fish stone comes from a magma explosion and the base from a rare up-welling of the upper mantle.

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Breccia leaping fish

Wheal Remfry explosion Breccia on Serpentine base. 250mm x 200mm x 160mm

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Deep Field

Frosterley marble on Portland base 500mm x 300mm x 100mm

Inspired by the Hubble telescope's view of far distant galaxies. (in both time and space)

Frosterley wave

Frosterley marble 400mm x 250mm x 100mm

Frosterley marble is a beautiful stone from Weardale, rich in ancient coral fossils.

Izzy's bowl

Kilkenny Limestone on Portland base 1000mm x 1000mm x 350mm

Luxulianite bowl

Luxulianite granite 380mm x 300mm x 250mm

A very beautiful and rare form of metamorphic granite.

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Ian's bowl

Kilkenny limestone 600mm x 400mm x 350mm

Terrier

Portland stone 400mm x 500mm x 300mm

A much-missed pooch, possibly the most wilful creature that ever was.

Wallington dragon

Portland stone 650mm x 550mm x 350mm

A reconstruction of one of the dragon heads to be found at Wallington hall in Northumberland, originally from Bishopsgate in London.

Wallington dragon2

Finishing touches

Lion head

Portland stone 600mm x 500mm x 350mm

Lion

Portland stone 600mm x 500mm x 350mm

Aphrodite

Portland stone 400mm x 320mm x 200mm

Taken from a cast of a Roman copy of an original by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles.

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Merlin 1

Devonian slate relief 450mm x 300mm

Carved into slate cliff at Tintagel, Cornwall

Merlin 2

Devonian slate relief 500mm x 300mm

As this is well within the tidal zone it'll be interesting to see how long it lasts the winter storms

Merlin

Devonian slate relief 500mm x 300mm

Romanesque wild man

Portland stone 500mm x 300mm x 220mm

The confidence and exuberance of the Romanesque sculpture of Europe is a great influence.

Cup&ring sphere

St Bees sandstone 300mm

Inspired by the enigmatic carvings found in the moors of Northumnerland

Frog

Portland stone 400mm x 500mm x 300mm