The ability to convey thought & sound by means of writing took thousands of years to accomplish. From furrows in sand, dents in soft clay & the Romans writing on walls, I enhance with the help of many before me the Roman paint brush & stone -chisel style to Write & create Art works in Stone.
These incised stone objects can take many forms such as garden seats and tables, wall or tree hangings, water features or memorials.
I work in Hawkesbury Valley, Sydney and Blue Mountain sandstone as well as marble and Mintaro slate form the Clare Valley in South Australia. After selecting the appropriate stone and smoothing the material by hand, I carry out the calligraphy & or art work freehand using a variety of resources and methods
Hand cut Mintaro slate disc, 300mm dia.
I use tungsten carbide Letter Cutting chisels, either from Latham's in Sydney or Taranti's in London.
Hand cut, ( rather difficult), polished black Eugowra Granite, from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.
Hand Cut Mintaro slate block. Approximately 350mm x 350mm x 75mm thick.
This is a small piece of Mintaro Slate. Hand cut with my "Kite" font.
A combination of lettercutting & bronze
This is a permanent installation at the Burrendong Arboretum at the Burrendong Dam in the Central West of New South Wales in Australia. The theme of the exhibition was 'If trees could talk'. The burnt vertical beam of 'Turpentine' timber in the background was first harvested from within the 'Blue mountains' of New South Wales in Australia around 1870, transported to Sydney & used in the construction of a 'Wool Store' somewhere around Sydney Harbour, where it witnessed the goings on, within that 'Wool Store' for the next 100 years or so. The 'Wool Store was demolished in the 1970's & this beam of timber along with a lot of other material was recycled. With approximately twenty similar beams of timber, the beam shown here was used in the construction of a rather striking domestic dwelling in the Central West of New South Wales in Australia, which, unfortunately burnt down in 2003.
The vertical slab of Mintaro slate stands 2.2 metres out of the groung and reads"The Fire of Life and Destruction". Indicating the 'life cycle' of the Turpentine tree, needing fire to germinate the seed of the tree to give it life, and finally the fire of its destruction..
Doing some 'gold leafing' on a commission I did. The inscription read "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" John Lennon.
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