by SM | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog, Furniture, Gaelic, Lettering., Outdoors., Pictish, Public Space, Recent projects., Stone., Wildlife., Wood., Work
Village art installation finished After nearly two years of design and planning and the best part of a year in carving and construction, I was finally able to finish the art installation for Newtonmore village the day before deadline! The story I was contacted...
by SM | Apr 15, 2020 | Furniture, Garden, Gifts, Lettering., Lifestyle, Outdoors., Portfolio., Public Space, Recent projects., Wood., Work, Work
I needed a new bench for the front of the house so I thought I’d make my first attempt at charring. I also developed a way of joining the oak beams by cutting steel C channel into square timber dogs. 200x200mm charred oak beam bench with hand-cut lettering. 1.5m...
by SM | Jun 27, 2019 | News., Outdoors., Portfolio., Press., Public Space, Recent projects., Stone., Work, Work
The Speyside Way is a long-distance walking (or cycling) route which happens to run very close to my home. It currently runs from Spey Bay on the Moray Firth coast to Aviemore in the Cairngorms, approximately 65 miles away. Plans are underway for the Speyside Way to...
by SM | May 15, 2018 | Furniture, Garden, Gifts, Lifestyle, Lifestyle, Outdoors., Portfolio., Public Space, Recent projects., Wood., Work, Work
This is a railway-themed bench I made for my dad’s birthday. It sits on the Speyside Way long-distance route, next to what used to be the sidings for Cragganmore Distillery. Railway sleepers, railway track, sidings stones and railway sign. Cragganmore,...
by SM | Oct 14, 2013 | Blog, Furniture, Garden, Lettering., News., Outdoors., Public Space, Recent projects., Wood., Work
I was lucky enough to have a pair of my carvings appear on BBC TV’s longstanding gardening series, Beechgrove Garden, recently. The large knot sculpture and the sycamore seed that are currently at the Knockando woolmill (as well as myself) were all given...
