This section brings together a variety of work that I have been commissioned to produce over the years, from garden sculpture to graphic artwork.

HEADSTONES and memorials are included here.

Lovers
Limestone

Design for a Green Man to be included in the brickwork for a house extension near Bridgnorth.

This is the finished work, measuring 14 by 16 inches.

LUCTON AUMBRY

An Aumbry is a niche or hidey-hole in a church where they used to lock up the valuables. The arch was removed during building work and the owners wanted me to do something interesting with the arch that remained. It’s now a birdbath!

GARDEN SEAT IN LUDLOW

The brief for this commission was to design a two-seater garden feature for a house in Ludlow.
I wanted to create a water feature without having to supply the water and so rain collects in the carved bowl above the head, as well as seeming to emanate from the mouth.

CELTIC DRAGON

A sculpture made from three pieces of Lincolnshire limestone.
Installed in a private garden near Ludlow, Shropshire.
Completed july 2010

NICOLA GREEN’S MEMORIAL STONE AT BECK’S HOUSE IN BRISTOL

This commission called for a bronze Tern ( an “Elegant Tern” ) to spout water from it’s beak into a stone bowl, on the outside of which was carved the inscription.
The original bird was carved from one piece of plaster and cast into bronze at the Red Temple foundry in Birmingham.
The stone used was Forest of Dean.

Plaster carving ready for casting.

This water feature was part of garden design for the Stonebow unit of Hereford’s County Hospital in the city center.
The garden brief was to make a quiet place for patients with mental disabilities to share with their families. I designed a cascading series of water-channels carved from Forest of Dean stone, along with several taller sculptures and a bird bath.

Over the past seven or eight years I have done several commissions for the Tankhouse near Pembridge, Herefordshire.
It has the greenest, lushest lawn I have ever seen !
I started with a St Francis figure, then a large supplicating Angel, followed by a bird bath and finally a Green Man.

Early drawings for the Angel.

The stone, newly delivered from the Forest of Dean.

Memorial stone for John Hencher

Eric commissioned me to make a headstone for his wife, who died last year and is buried at Kilpeck church in Herefordshire.
Eric worked as a draughtsman on the designs for the Spitfire during the 2nd world war and both he and his wife were competent artists, so Eric had plenty of input on the design of the stone.
It’s a double plot and so Eric’s name is on the stone too!
He came to my studio in freezing weather and had a go at carving part of a rose and some background texture before the cold drove us indoors for a cuppa.
Not many people have the chance, or indeed desire to work on their own headstone, but Eric wanted to be part of the process and we shared a few laughs about it all.

work in progress at the studio

Headstone in place at Kilpeck March 2010

Sand-etched glass with Oak leaf motif.
The Grange Village at Newnham-on-Severn.

The Parkfields Estate at Pontshill, near Ross-on-Wye commissioned an earthwork for their grounds. The theme I was inspired by was the Tale of Icarus and this Heliotrope was Daedalus’s memorial to his son. It featured a narrow passageway that at a certain time during the day let sunlight fall onto a low-relief figure of Daedalus and a cretan labyrinth.

The piece was constructed from local stone and Forest of Dean stone.
It measured some twenty five feet in length.

Tree Angels at Hampton Court

Mike Whitfield cementing in a Green Man at his home on Garway Hill.

A Green Man designed to fit a garden wall in Wellington, North Herefordshire.