Study Sculpture Workshops: Stone Carving

Simon and Anna Cooley welcome you to their beautifully situated family home, 3 miles from Abergavenny, “gateway to the mountains”.

Courses take place in Simon’s traditional stone barn, and Anna provides delicious home style lunches and hospitality.

The simple ancient techniques of hammer and fire are as direct a process as stone carving is in the making of sculpture.

This course provides an introduction to the nature of stone and the means by which we can work with it.

Using the traditional techniques of the sculptor and stonemason, methods of transferring ideas onto a block and finding form within it will be discovered, and the aim is to complete a sculpture and return home with a finished piece.