French Side – Il y a une fissure en toute chose by Leonard Cohen. Carved for charity auction event – Canadian Stone Carving Festival held in Montreal, July 2025 English side – There is a crack in everything that’s how […]
True North Strong & Free
I felt inspired to show that Canadians are such resilient people. These are not just words from the Canadian Anthem. They are part of who we are. We persevere. We stand up for what is right. We are polite but […]
Marble letter carving and low relief – The Dreamer
Letter Carving & Low Relief
Honouring a lovely man …
Throughout our lives we meet lots of people, some we don’t care to meet more than once, but sometimes you meet people who are just lovely. Maybe you don’t see them that often in your life but they always appear […]
80th Anniversary of D-Day – Honouring the Naval spirit
80 years on it is hard to imagine the predicament the world was in in 1944. Anyone who has read WWII history or visited Commonwealth War Graves across Europe is under no illusion as to the incredible loss of life; […]
Canadian Stone Carving Festival 2023
Canadian Stone Carving Festival 2023 was held in Place d’Armes, old Montreal. What an amazing location. 36 carvers set out to raise money for the Montreal charity Le Cap over a 20 hour carving period. We raised $10,700 in all […]
Sculpture / letter carving in the garden …
What a weird and wonderful summer between the wacky thunderstorms, imminent tornado warnings and smog/smoke alerts due to the large number of wildfires – and we are not even half way through July yet … As I sit here […]
Who knit ya? That wonderful Newfoundland phrase …
Newfoundland is a stunning province. It’s incredibly beautiful, great for hiking and some of the loveliest people you could possibly meet live there. I was lucky to get to travel across the province in the summer of 2022. Hiking […]
Love – a unique wedding gift
I started with a few designs, but the one pictured here is the one that spoke to me the most. Wedding gifts are a tricky thing. Sure you can go into a store and purchase something off the shelf, but […]
Togetherness …
Togetherness, that feeling of warmth of being with those you love. Do we need a permanent reminder? Maybe not but there is something lovely about the permanence of this Italian Marble and the elegance of the lettering style I have […]
Serendipity and Kintsugi
Earlier this year I started to carve the phrase “Where attention goes energy flows” – something I had heard on a ‘Yoga with Adrienne’ video. The piece was coming along beautifully when catastrophe struck! I moved the easel and despite […]
The Touch
THE TOUCH OF YOUR HAND is from the first line of a poem written by my dear friend Jay. I wanted to experiment a little with raised lettering but in a tighter formation. I used an alphabet from Tom Perkins’ […]
Raised Lettering of a classic album cover font
Some letter forms cry out to be raised. Case in point – this classic font from an Rush album cover. The curves on this font and the way it runs together are exciting and iconic! I just had to carve […]
Sculpture in the home
When decorating our rooms it’s easier to know how to adorn our walls. We see a painting or print we like and up it goes. Job done. Somehow though, sculpture stumps a lot of people. I think sculpture needs to […]
Where Attention Goes Energy Flows …
Happy New Year one and all! 2023 is here but where did 2022 go? ! I don’t know about you but when January comes around its time to evaluate and think about the year ahead. There is a lot of […]