by SM | Jan 18, 2013 | Lettering., Memorial., News., Outdoors., Recent projects., Stone.
Just before Christmas I installed a stone memorial at the world famous Gordonstoun School. The headstone was for the former school chaplain and was laid in the grounds of the school’s old Michael Kirk. It’s a truly lovely setting among the trees, next to...
by SM | Jan 18, 2013 | Furniture, Garden, Lettering., Memorial., News., Outdoors., Public Space, Recent projects., Wood.
Another recently finished commission was to add an inscription to an existing, solid pine bench. The bench which was installed on the Speyside Way long distance trail near Nethy Bridge, not far from my home. As pine is too soft to hold the fine detail required of a...
by SM | Jan 18, 2013 | Gifts, Indoors., Lettering., News., Recent projects., Wildlife., Wood.
This was a lovely job that I was asked to carve for a client’s father’s 60th birthday present. It shows a red deer stag standing by a mountain side, with the family name, Strachan, hand-carved alongside. Red deer stag and family name hand-carved...
by SM | Jan 18, 2013 | Gifts, Indoors., News., Recent projects., Wildlife., Wood.
This is a commission I finished recently which was given as a Christmas present to a keen fisherman. Scot’s wych elm, wall-mounted trout sculpture. Approx 350mm long....
by SM | Jan 16, 2013 | Garden, Gifts, Lettering., News., Outdoors., Recent projects., Whisky barrel., Wood.
Not everyone will know this but, Speyside, as well as being famous for its sculptor *ahem*, has also a pretty good reputation for its Scotch malt whisky. In fact, with around sixty working distilleries, it has nearly as many as the rest of Scotland combined. One of my...
