Just before the winter holidays we spent a week carving the limestone blocks that we picked up on our quarry visit. Not much I can say really, the stone is so soft you can work it with hand tools as if it were a piece of wood. I was of the opinion that the design just needed to be released from the stone (in other words I had no idea what I was going to carve) so I just started chipping, cutting and sanding away until this came out.
It’s actually two blocks of limestone keyed together with a piece of wood acting as a dowel. It will now sit in my garden as a tribute to the lost art of ‘Making it up as you go along’…
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