Over my Easter holidays from school I was commissioned to cut two headstones in lovely Portland limestone for a family in Sussex. […]

Among classicists, it is well known that the most frankly and cheerfully obscene writer in ancient Rome was Catullus. Even among his […]

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 […]

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

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 […]