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Drawing Dry Stone Walls

Last Saturday was National Drawing Day, which was a great excuse to dust off my watercolour set can dig out my pencil case. The Dry Stone W

Dry Stone Canada Stone Festival 2019

Dry Stone Canada Stone Festival. Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada. In late September Canada’s dry stone wall association Dry Stone Canada...

The Timekeeper

Earlier in the year I was commissioned under the Per Cent for Art scheme to create a sculpture for a secondary school in Drogheda Co....

Dry Stone Canada

September was a busy month for stone festivals. First we returned to ‘The Gathering of Stones‘ site to put the final arch in place and to...

The Stone Festival season has begun! Stein und Wein Austria

Well the stone festival season is well and truly upon us. This year I started my festival season with a trip to Austria’s largest...

Bloom 2013

Almost a year late, but here is the story of my involvement in Bloom in the Park garden show last year. Picking up icy cold stones in...

Feile na gCloch (Festival of Stone) 2013 Inis Oírr Island

So two weekends ago I made my annual retreat to Inis Oirr, the smallest of the three islands that make up the Arran Islands in Galway...

The Gathering of Stones in the heart of Ireland

After months of anticipation, stones, masons and dry-stone enthusiasts from the four corners of Ireland as well as the rest of the world...

Miniature stoneworks. Giants amongst pebbles.

Miniature stoneworks may look like the real deal close up, but they are in fact far more complicated to build and also cannot withstand...

Drystone Walling on Inis Oírr Island

Last weekend I attended my first dry stone walling workshop on Inis Oírr Island. And I am already looking forward to going back next...