Pendants
I have been carving pendants for about 14 years, since I first began whittling and woodcarving. For many years they gave me a chance to create work that required little in the way of tools (just a knife and some sandpaper) and could utilise little fragments and splinters of wood which were easy to carry in a backpack.b(just a knife,out 14III
These pendants were carved to represent the seasons. the plants are ones which are particularly associated with each season in Britain. From the left, primroses come out in spring, bluebells in summer, blackberries in autumn and ivy stays green all through the winter.
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piece ws carved from a fragment of holm oak collected at a youth hostel
in Oieras, Portugal (where this type of wood is known as azinho). The
wood had been previously charred, darkening and hardening it. The inset
stone is a piece of calcite collected in a valley named San Pedro in
Almeria,Spain where I was staying at the time. It was smoothed by rubbing
against an old whetstone. The desert valley has a group of hippies and
travellers living in it and is very beautiful. This carving is so-called
because it was carved on the beach at San Pedro on the first day of
the new millenium. Click on the image for pictures of San Pedro. |