It's such a pain posting photos here. I don't want pre-faff, I want to access all my albums easily and immediately @bsky.app

Current job - puppy mattress. Welcome, Waffle, to our world.

Scoffing wild cherries on my dogwalk, couldn't be better!

Radiohead's Hail to the Thief married to Shakespeare's Hamlet at the RSC Stratford. Bloody marvellous in every aspect. What an experience.

First drawing out of the lettering for side 1 of the base layer of the Bampton Obelisk. Chisel to stone tomorrow!

New apprentice joining us soon.

Said goodbye to Pudding today. Rapid decline overnight, a stroke I think. He wagged until the very end. The most wonderful dog. We are broken.

Fungi not a word?! @guardian word wheel

I've got a cancellation for this Saturday's Sculpture-in-a-day course. £120 for a day carving limestone neae Witney, Oxon, all tools, materials and tuition included. Contact me ASAP if you'd like it.

Our final exhibition weekend! We're open today, tomorrow and Monday. 11 - 5. OX18 2NA It's a joy of a show. We've had so much lovely feedback (and a few red dots!) Thank you to all our visitors so far. With the fab @sculptedinstone.bsky.social

We've decided that we like these two billing and cooing pigeons so much that they're not for sale. You can see them and loads more at our show this weekend. Do come! Exhibiting in Bampton, Oxfordshire with the wonderful @suesideartist.bsky.social

Gorgeous client photo - Dancing Otters has been in place in this Somerset garden for a couple of years now, and is looking gorgeous!

No, I refuse to be all randomly bubbly, I shall be one massive bubble of a naan

A lorry has stopped in a layby by the busy A40 outside Witney. The driver stands in front of the cab, playing the bagpipes. @mirandakeeling.com Also Miranda, Jane loved the book. Perfect little nuggets of joy for post-brain-tumour op. She survived, is thriving, and I don't have to live on a boat.

Sold - Preening Swan will remain on show at the Himalayan Garden near Ripon, but she's got a red dot. I'll be exhibiting in a couple of weeks at home with @suesideartist.bsky.social though - and we have many other artists in the village, all as part of Oxfordshire Art Weeks. Do come!

Would love to know where he was heading.

A reworked piece. This was twice the height and, predictably, fell over. New leaves, another hole and the added detail of gilding the voids has given it new life. What do you reckon? Will be on show at our coming exhibition - looking forward to seeing you!

This smaller version of a larger garden piece is in a gorgeous bit of Portland limestone. It'll be available to see, stroke and even buy (you'd better be quick!) at our exhibition in just three weeks (gulp). @suesideartist.bsky.social at my side as ever - she's producing beautiful work right now.

Sanding. Noodle the dusty dog and I look forward to welcoming you to our exhibition, really soon! @suesideartist.bsky.social also showing her wonderful work.

Jane's amazing garden. It's mine too, but she does all the work. Wisteria is going crazy this year, that flowering columnar cherry on the right that Pudding ate as a pup but we gave another chance is stunning, and a well stocked (and well stacked) log store always pleases...

Sketching morris dancers' silhouettes. They'll feature on a forthcoming piece of public art in the centre of Bampton, commissioned by the parish council and funded through Section 106 art funding. Very excited for this stone to be delivered so that I can start!

Back in 2012, I was commissioned to draw this lovely girl. I'll be starting a new portrait of her next wk, now a thoughtful young woman. Come see the new portrait in progress during @oxfordshireartweeks. I will be exhibiting with the talented @sculptedinstone.bsky.social May 17 18 22 - 26 OX18 2NA

Meanwhile, I'm off to see this bad boy today at @morethanadodo.bsky.social. I do have my reasons to visit specifically this dinosaur, which will soon hopefully become clear.

Baking with attentive labrador. Pudding may be ancient but he doesn't miss a trick.

Today I had poached pheasants' eggs on avocado on toast for breakfast, and then a very nice bull calf let me scratch his head lots. I like an uncomplicated life but I also like new experiences.

Temporary installation at Cokethorpe School. I'll be relocating this piece back home to Bampton for our artweeks exhibition. @suesideartist.bsky.social and I hope to see you then!

Happy with this. Ancaster hard white limestone. Will be on show and for sale at our coming exhibition.

Sanding until my fingers put in for a transfer. Come and see the finished item and so much more at our next exhibition. This May, in Bampton.

3 new pieces patiently waiting their turn to be sanded and polished ready for our artweeks exhibition. Coming soon!

Had a blast at the New Theatre Oxford tonight with @psbhq.bsky.social Public Service Broadcasting. Great music, amazing visuals, fantastic show.

Just chop off all the bits that don't look like swan. Lots more to do, but the shape is there. Commission based on a previous piece of mine. Will be on show along with loads of other new work at our summer artweeks exhibition.

A little taster - a commission under Section 106 Art Funding, coming eventually to a village near you (depending where you live, obvs) Very excited to start this big piece of work!

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So thrilled to see @laforceband.bsky.social at St Pancras Old Church last night. Beautiful venue, stunning show.

Coming soon...very excited about this year's Summer Exhibition. Lots of wonderful new work to see! @suesideartist.bsky.social look forward to welcoming you.

And it rocks too. New piece, almost finished. Bath Hartham limestone.

Just watched Firebrand on Prime. Rewritten history. Absolute tosh.

Unintentional art at the studio today. Red Indian soapstone dust, rescued granite backdrop, outdoor studio detritus base.

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.

Happy news - three pieces submitted, three pieces selected for the 2025 exhibition at the Himalayan Sculpture Park and Garden near Ripon, North Yorkshire. Very honoured, very excited to be taking my work North to be part of this wonderful landscape for the year.

So pleased with our new mugs from @saskiadanielceramics.com. Handmade, individual, beautiful. Lovely to hold, pleasing on the mouth and so pretty. We may have to come back for more...

Tall tail, Ancaster hard white limestone. Installed for the moment at Cokethorpe School, near Witney.

Head and neck refined, first pass of sanding done. I think the tail needs narrowing, too fish-like? Happy to receive feedback! If anyone's tempted to get a bit RSPB on me please bear in mind this is not meant to be any specific bird - just 'of bird'.

Head needs to be formed and there's some work to be done on the neck and rear of the body, plus it doesn't stand freely at the moment. That said, I'm nearly at the sand until your fingers hate you stage. Gorgeous Ancaster hard white limestone.

@nigelslater.bsky.social I made an approximation to the 'ivory sauce' that you deacribe eating in Beirut. It went brilliantly with a red onion tarte tatin and some couscous, bulgar wheat and quinoa with pomegranate and mint. Really enjoying A Thousand Feasts, thank you.

Yes, @nigelslater.bsky.social, yes.

More work on this today. Shape approaching what I want, lots of refining needed tomorrow. At the moment it won't stand up, but I'll address this as I move towards the endgame. Ancaster hard white limestone.

Good progress today on this piece of Ancaster hard white limestone. (It's neither particularly hard nor white). Also didn't get frostbite in my fingers, which is a bonus.

In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8