by SM | Aug 10, 2014 | Furniture, Garden, Lettering., Outdoors., Recent projects., Wood.
I was asked to produce a garden bench using planks cut from an oak tree planted by the client’s father forty years ago. The name of the house – Camusdarach, meaning the bay of the oaks – is hand-carved on the...
by SM | Aug 10, 2014 | Indoors., News., Recent projects., Wildlife., Wood.
The Crown Estate approached me to create a trophy for the Scottish Forestry Awards Hand-carved red squirrel trophy commissioned by the Crown...
by SM | Aug 10, 2014 | Celtic., Lettering., Memorial., Outdoors., Pictish, Recent projects., Slate., Wildlife.
This large Caithness stone headstone commands a lovely position overlooking the Cromarty Firth. This memorial headstone is a large slab of Caithness stone carved on both sides. The inscription is on the front with a few lines of poetry on the reverse with a...
by SM | Feb 5, 2014 | Garden, News., Outdoors., Recent projects., Stone., Wildlife.
Just finished – the first of four commissions of or featuring hares. Three more to go. This is a garden sculpture I’ve just completed of St. Melangell’s hare. St. Melangell is the patron saint of hares and you can read her story below. This sculpture was...
by SM | Dec 14, 2013 | Garden, Gifts, Outdoors., Portfolio., Recent projects., Wildlife., Wood.
Five foot tall, bald eagle ‘logo’ garden sculpture in lime/basswood. “Old Abe” has a legend all to himself dating back to the times of the American civil war. He was adopted in the early 20th Century as the logo for the Case company, who...
