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skip to content home about news contact links carvings with stories woodcarving, sculpture, letter carving and carving tuition by alistair park there's more information here... services exhibitions sculptures carved signs, gifts and memorials woodcarving tuition and teaching portfolio portfolio signs and letter cutting outdoor sculpture commissions sculptures for exhibitions unusual commissions early woodcarvings making the jackie collins inspirational woman of the year award: 2016 – 2018 this award is presented every year by the cancer charity penny brohn uk. for the last three years, i have been honoured to be asked to carve each one. all of them are different in design and a lot of effort is put into making each one special to the person receiving it. in 2018, jacqueline gold was presented with the award. she is the boss of the ann summers chain of high street shops, which sell lingerie and other products to spice up people's love lives. her award references one of the company's most famous products, which has a rabbit theme... the wood used came from the ashton court estate in bristol and the carving also has a small box included in the design, as the trust wanted the award to be functional in some way. here's a photo of jacqueline gold receiving her award in may 2018. the image was supplied by penny brohn uk and is credited to andre regini. in 2017, the recipient was the perfume designer jo malone. her new line of fragrances uses the scent of pomelo as its keynote and so i came up with some designs based around the leaves and flowers of pomelos. there were a read more predator bird’s skull after making a few 'metainsects', i started to think about what kind of predator would adapt or evolve to feed on such ornery little beasties. what would they look like? with an anatomy-themed exhibition coming up, i started to carve a bird's skull, but one that would eat tough, large and potentially dangerous insects. the skull is quite chunky and crested, so the bird would almost certainly be flightless but probably a good runner. it has a large braincase, so would be smart. the whole skull is about 25 centimetres (approx. 10 inches) long. the nozzle on the beak would fire a sticky mucus that would disable the defences of the prey. this is adapted from a similar system used by a seabird called a fulmar, which shoots foul-smelling secretions at potential attackers from a similar nozzle over it's beak. the large beak would then be able to pick apart the prey. the skull part was carved from a single block of sycamore. the beak and nozzle are carved from a piece of english boxwood. the stand is stained oak and bamboo. i really enjoyed carving the 'predator bird's skull'. it gave a chance to revisit my studies in zoology and the anatomy of read more self portrait 2013 this was carved from a piece of a big lawson cypress tree that was cut down next to ashton court mansion in bristol. the work was part of a landscaping scheme, but was very controversial at the time. it's nice to think that some of the timber has gone to a creative use instead of rotting away. i'd wanted to try carving a self portrait for a while, as it's a real challenge for a carver to get right. using a piece of such an iconic bristolian tree also reflects my affection for my adopted home town. after milling it into usable pieces on site (with permission), the timber was also being used in many projects that i was working on at the time. i got the chance to make a self portrait with an exhibition called 'cornucopia' at the grant bradley gallery in bristol, uk in 2013. portraits are pretty tricky things at the best of times, but self portraits show a bit more of your 'soul'. i suppose that's why so many artists have had a go at them: it's a real test of skill and technique. however, on the plus side, the model is always there and works for free! many read more libby houston 2014 this portrait of the well-respected poet and botanist libby houston was carved into a large oak bench that i designed and made. which is now sited on the clifton downs in bristol. the leaves that she is holding are from a houston's whitebeam, a sub-species of whitebeam tree (sorbus spp.) which is only known from a single specimen growing in the avon gorge near bristol. libby discovered the tree and it has been named after her. when libby visited, she brought the leaves with her for me to copy in carvings on the bench and also very kindly explained what made them distinct from similar trees. whitebeams are deciduous, meaning that the leaves are shed by the tree every autumn (fall). therefore obtaining these leaves hadn't damaged the tree at all. after she had left i realised that, since there is only one specimen of this tree known to exist, they must be leaves from the world's rarest tree. read more totem pole 2012 this totem pole shows things that are important to the person who received it - a collection of personal totems including an owl, a horse and a trout. the piece was carved for a commission in 2012 and is now installed in the new forest, hampshire. it was a lot of fun to carve but also quite a challenge, as it includes a portrait of the person that it was a present for. this was the first portrait that i had been commissioned to carve. the pole is carved from durable european larch, grown in the local area to my workshop. it is 14 feet (4 m 20 cm) tall in total, with 4 feet (1m 20cm) going underground when installed. i couldn't meet him in person to take measurements and so the portrait had to be done solely from photos, which were all taken at different times in his life. i never got to meet either the person who commissioned it or the subject of the portrait carving, so have no idea how close the likeness is! apparently he likes the carving though, which is what everyone wanted. read more bench on the clifton downs 2015 this bench is the largest single project that i have taken on to date, being 2.5 metres (8 feet) long and weighing well over half a ton. it was commissioned by the clifton and hotwells improvement society in bristol and was installed in june 2015. the wood is oak that originally grew on a farm outside the village of backwell, about seven miles from where the playground where the bench has been situated. the bench is quite unusual, as the site that it has been placed on is part of clifton down in bristol. the downs committee, who oversee the running of the area, hardly ever give permission for permanent works of art to be installed there and i feel very privileged to have been given this opportunity. the bench was almost two years in the making and shows notable people, creatures and structures to do with the area. researching it myself was fascinating. one carving is a portrait of renowned poet and botanist libby houston, who visited my studio a couple of times. showing her the portrait for the first time was a little nervewracking! fortunately, she liked it. amongst many other subjects, the bench also shows thecodontosaurus, the 'bristol dinosaur', which read more gramophone weevil 2010 'gramophone weevil' is one of a series of sculptures combining my interests in zoology and woodcarving. the entire piece was made from timber collected, with permission, from westonbirt arboretum in gloucestershire. the 'vinyl' is actually charcoal dust cast in resin (and in case you are wondering, i haven't tried playing it!) 'gramophone weevil' imagines a future world where modified insects, produced for a particular short-lived role, are easier to come by than scarce vinyl records. this creature has been engineered and produced to play records until it needs to be replaced. the mouthparts are purely adapted to hold the needle that plays the vinyl, as it doesn't have to feed to perform its function. the sculpture reflects my concerns about some current research projects (specifically the us defence department's hi-mems project), which look to engineer insects into tools for human use. considering how much lo

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