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Introducing Elizabeth – January 2023

This introduction to my good friend Elizabeth Stocker’s work is long overdue, since she kindly built this website for me ten years ago, and has kept it updated ever since. She is also a talented graphic designer and has collaborated with me in my work many times over the years. She designed and drew all the lettering onto the stone of all three War Memorials that I have been involved with for David Bedford to carve, and then she came back and painted the letters. Here are pictures of Elizabeth and David working on the Millhouse Green boundary stone in 2013:



And here is Sam’s Möbius 1 maquette:





Well done Sam!

Both Sam’s works were sold to clients of Andrew Illingworth’s firm FiveTwo.

Sam intends to carry on working on my designs and also developing his own. He is currently learning to inscribe runes.

Watch this space!

Introducing Sam – August 2021

Last spring, my son Sam told me that he would like to take up stone sculpture, so I started training him. Here he is with his first finished work, a square obelisk:



And here is Sam’s Möbius 1 maquette:





Well done Sam!

Both Sam’s works were sold to clients of Andrew Illingworth’s firm FiveTwo.

Sam intends to carry on working on my designs and also developing his own. He is currently learning to inscribe runes.

Watch this space!

A Transatlantic Experiment – February 2021

Michael contacted me from California wanting to commission a large sculpture last autumn. I declined the commission, explaining that I would find it hard to arrange delivery, but suggested an alternative – that for a fee I would draw up plans of a sculpture which could then be carved by a Californian stone mason. Michael went for this idea, and together with his landscape architect Stacy hired stone mason Eddy to do the Job.

Michael chose to have a slightly larger version of Möbius 14, which I had exhibited at RHS Harlow Carr in 2019:



So I drew up the designs and emailed them to California.

Eddy carved Möbius 15, and installed it in the garden this February:



Here are Michael and Lauren with their new sculpture:



Well done Eddy and Stacy!

Introducing Jan Fielden – July 2018

Holmfirth – where Last of the Summer Wine was filmed – hosts an excellent Art Week each July. When I visited the exhibition this summer, I spotted a wonderful free-form sculpture called Trefoil Möbius by Jan Fielden. Afterwards, I contacted Jan and he agreed to exhibit it here at my home among my collection of maquettes.

Here is Jan with his sculpture:



Click on this link for more images of Trefoil Möbius and dimensions.

Contact Jan Fielden on j.fielden2@ntlworld.com Tel: 01484 452729

Update - Hampton Court Flower Show - 5th to 10th of July 2016

Möbius XI is finished and ready for garden designer Rae Wilkinson’s garden - A Breath of Fresh Air - at Hampton Court Flower Show.



They were loaded today, with Elizabeth’s expert supervision:



Wish me luck tomorrow on the M1 & and the dreaded M25!



Please follow this link to read more on Rae Wilkinson’s website: www.raewilkinson.com

Hampton Court Flower Show - 5th to 10th of July 2016

Garden designer Rae Wilkinson has invited me to exhibit a sculpture in her 2016 show garden at Hampton Court Flower Show.

Here are her designs for the garden, which will be called A Breath of Fresh Air:





I’ve started working on Möbius XI for her garden:



Please follow this link to read more on Rae Wilkinson’s website: www.raewilkinson.com

Celebrating Art in the Garden at West Lavington Manor – 26th of May to 12th of June 2016

2016 Exhibition Announced

West Lavington Manor is an exceptionally beautiful five acre walled garden. The variety of informal and formal spaces, with a lake and trout stream, provides a wonderful background for the display of contemporary sculpture.

We are delighted that ‘Celebrating Art in the Garden’ returns to West Lavington Manor on 26 May. The exhibition continues each Wednesday to Sunday until 12 June with an additional opening on Bank Holiday Monday 30 May. Our hours of opening are 11am until 6pm each day. Entry fee is £7. A seniors concession of £5 is available excepting on the NGS day 11 June.

The Manor is located at 1 Church Street, West Lavington, SN10 4LA

Friends of the Garden