Author: stonehouseletters

Last year, while I was still recovering, I started this piece as a present for my brother in law. It’s old cumbrian […]

Staying with letters, but a little different, I did a signwriting course with fantastic local signwriter Camilla Rose. I did a little […]

This started off as a little exercise – the design is from an Alaskan stamp, originally designed by the indigenous artist Rico […]

I carved this in reclaimed marble for the new baby of some friends. She is named for a nereid – a sea […]

A grave marker I was asked to make for a grave in a natural burial ground. Cut in (very challenging) reclaimed Delabole […]

I was commissioned to cut a design for someone in Wales – hence ‘Hiraeth’, the Welsh word for “longing for home”. The […]

I really loved this little commission – a little stone for a little cat. Really pleased with how it came out – […]

A couple of very special thank you paperweights – in reclaimed marble, and using a Lombardic script developed by the amazing Poor […]

A quick experiment, at the end of a short course on Modern Blackletter calligraphy. I painted this Fraktur ‘R’ straight on to […]

I’ve wanted to make one of these for a long time – the text says (in Tibetan) Aum mane padme hum which […]