by SM | May 13, 2021 | Lettering., Memorial., Outdoors., Recent projects., Wood., Work
Hand-carved crosses for Abbey graveyard A gallery of some of the memorial crosses I have carved for the graveyard at Pluscarden Abbey near Elgin. Hand-carved lettering in oak and sapele. These crosses were carved previously but had become very worn. My task...
by SM | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorised
Highland Village Art Installation 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 installation of this big project the day before deadline! After tendering a proposal, my...
by SM | Sep 30, 2020 | Gifts, Indoors., Lifestyle, Portfolio., Recent projects., Slate., Wildlife., Work
A commission I received to carve a Japanese woodblock style heron on slate. Wall art.
by SM | Sep 30, 2020 | Lettering., Memorial., Outdoors., Portfolio., Stone., Wildlife., Work
I added a new inscription to a headstone on the Black Isle. Original not my own.
by SM | Sep 30, 2020 | Doric, Garden, Lettering., Nature, Outdoors., Portfolio., Recent projects., Slate., Wildlife., Work
I took a few lines from Robbie Burns’ famous poem, Tam O’Shanter But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white – then melts for ever; And carved them onto a...
