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 …
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 …
This handsome, hand-carved house nameplate was commissioned to identify a holiday home here on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula. The Celtic lettering is in keeping with the rural landscape on Ireland’s south-west coast. It’s good to see householders choosing traditional ways of marking their properties out for visitors. Carved signs have a timeless quality, and holidaymakers …
It’s interesting, as a sculptor in the twenty-first century, to get the chance to experiment with a type of stone-carving that was at its most popular in fifth-century Ireland. Ogham stones served as a means of commemorating someone, and the lines along the side of the stone spelled out their names, and sometimes details about …
