Carving Workshops
with
ROSIE MocKFORD, PEtE LLOYD, Alistair park & Tim Graham
Workshop
Description
Spend time at our wonderful Bristol workshop discovering how to use a simple set of tools to carve gorgeous items you’ll treasure. Five different courses are currently offered:
- Learn to carve your first butter knife and spoon, or improve on your existing spoon caving knowledge. (Tutor: Rosie Mockford)
- Learn to carve a kuksa (a handled wooden cup) for your morning coffee. (Tutor: Pete Lloyd)
- Learn to carve a tea-spoon and a small cup. (Tutor: Tim Graham)
- Learn to carve a bowl in the shape of a bird (Tutor: Pete Lloyd)
- Learn to do relief carving in a block of wood (Tutor: Alistair Park)
Please view available courses on the calendar below and click on each for more details of course content.
Booking
About
Tim Graham
Tim (@timclivegraham ) is a greenwood carver with seven years experience flicking chips and forming shapes from wood. He works with foraged and found wood, either perched on a fallen tree, or tucked away in his workspace in rural Somerset. Though quite happy to carve large items of treen, he is far happier carving small which has lead him to designing and running this course.
About
Rosie Mockford
Rosie Mockford (@rosie.joy.maker ) is a spoon carver from Gloucestershire. Rosie loves how accessible spoon carving is – needing just a few simple tools – and is passionate about sharing green woodworking. She teaches woodland wellbeing, skills and crafts for the Cotswolds Natural Landscape (@aonbcotswolds) and Miserden Gardens (@miserden). She is also a course assistant at Brookhouse Woods in Herefordshire (@woodlandmakers) and helps to organise the Gloucestershire & friends Spoon Club. She is at her happiest when out in nature sharing skills!
You can read more about her work on her website.
About
Alistair Park
Alistair Park (@carvings_with_stories ) is a Bristol-based professional woodcarver with about thirty years of carving experience. Specialising in commission work, he has collaborated with organisations such as the National Trust, artists including Luke Jerram and has pieces in private collections around the world. He’s been teaching carving skills for over seventeen years to people of all ages and skill levels.
You can see more of his work on his website at website, on Instagram and on his Facebook page Alistair Park’s wood carvings.
About
Pete Lloyd
Pete Lloyd (@feralpete ) has extensive experience of wood-carving and tool-making. Part of the original Barton Hill greenwoodworking group, he has been carving spoons, kuksas and bowls for many years. As a recent assistant to Nic Westermann & Hewn & Hone in Wales he spent many months tool & jig making, including grinding and sharpening tools to the correct angles.
