Carving, Sculpting & Teaching with Stone
The West Cork Stone Symposium celebrates stone as part of our environment and as a source of inspiration throughout the ages The event will be held in Ahakista on West Cork’s Sheep’s Head peninsula from 23-25 March 2018, as Victor Daly welcomes the best stone carvers and dry stone wallers from across Europe to this …
Victor was delighted to lead the stone-carving workhops at the recent Tirconnell Stone Festival Participants young and old worked with Kilkenny limestone and sandstone to create small sculptural pieces that they were able to take home with them at the end of the festival. Victor offers a range of courses from his own West Cork …
Last year Wilf Stock came to visit me on the Sheep’s Head peninsula for a weekend stone-carving course. Wilf took to stone-carving like a natural, and it was a pleasure to pass on to him some of the skills involved in carving letters in stone. After the course, 75-year-old Wilf bought himself some chisels, and …
