Carving, Sculpting & Teaching with Stone
It was a pleasure to produce this piece as a commission to mark a birthday Jane Keenan commissioned the scupture to mark the birthday of her husband Terry. Terry, who lives on the Sheep’s Head peninsula here in West Cork, is an ordained Buddist monk, the Rev. Saigyo Yuho, as well as a writer and …
The intertwined stone rings in this sculpture offer a puzzle to the mind, asking to think in new ways about shapes and ideas. Of course, we use rings to symbolise connections that cannot be broken. In theory, we think of stones as symbolising permanence too. Still, the fluid shape of the ring is at odds …
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 …
This stone and leather chair is a unique piece created for a private commission. It’s an unusual way of bringing traditional stonecraft into the domestic space, and it is a real talking point in its new home!
