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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Sir Thomas Gainsborough

I'm delighted to have gained the commission to restore the inscription on Sir Thomas Gainsborough's tomb in Kew, London. Photo's to follow when work commences soon.

Monday, 5 March 2012

Michael Renton baptismal font



Some years ago I had the pleasure of executing a design on the behalf of the late Michael Renton, a renowned lettering artist and stone carver based in Hampshire. By the time of this commission Michael was in very poor health and he died shortly after this font was completed. I met Michael and discussed the carving with him at the works dept of Salisbury cathedral where I was then employed. These photo's were taken at the mason's workshop in Salisbury. He gave me with a copy of his design and left me to get on with it and seemed quite happy with the finished article. It now resides in St John's church, Farley Chamberlayne, in an isolated part of deeply rural Hampshire, one of those mysterious churches that has survived long after the medieval village it served had disappeared.