A selection of carvings from historic hand crafted ornamental work to large scale creatures Involving the use of chainsaws.
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Owl bench carved in oak.
Description
Below is a wood carving commision for a southampton client to create a piece of green oak furniture featuring two owl sentinels.
Acanthus leaf historic carving work.
Description
Carved in lime copied from an existing carving visible in the background.
Sumo carving
Description
Carved from a single trunk of cedar.
Laurel leaf frame
Description
Lime wood ornamental work
Macrocarpa cedar tree trunk prior to carving it into a sumo wrestler
Description
I'm sitting on the tree trunk here in order to give some indication of its size.
Jigging rod puppet for street performance aka busking
Description
This is the 5th wooden busking puppet that i have made
Dragon
Description
This carving of a dragon was a commission by Southampton Council and was largely executed using chainsaws.
King Canute
Description
Strictly speaking not wood carving but assemblage. This is a close up of the sculpture I created using recycled pallets and old nails
LINEN FOLD
Description
A traditional relief pattern often seen in furniture panels and wall panels. Carved in oak using moulding planes and gouges.
LINEN FOLD REPRODUCTION
Toad of toad hall
Description
Chainsaw carving for a private commission
BOXER
Description
Pine and gloss paint
TOUCAN CARVED IN CHERRY WOOD
Description
This was made for street entertainment its wings flap, its beak opens and closes and his head turns all powered by springs levers and cables inside its hollowed out body.