About 6 weeks ago Jenny and I started attending wood carving lessons given by an experienced artist in a Victorian school building near Street in Somerset. We quickly learned that wood carving is very different to stone carving, using different techniques and tools. It is also a lot cleaner and needs less muscle power, especially when working with a soft wood such as lime, which we are. Jenny is working on a formal design, whilst I am trying to copy a shepherd scene from a pew end in Beverley Minster in East Yorkshire. We are making slow progress, as the photos show - just in case you are confused our work is in the lower half of each photo!
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