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Famous for her animal sculptures, examples of which will be exhibited at the Sculptors’ Studio, Pippa Unwin originally trained as a children’s book illustrator at Cambridge Art School and worked on several published books. Her desire to express her work in three dimensions lead her to study further and she completed NVQs 2 and 3 in Architectural Stonemasonry and Carving at Bath College which lead to an apprenticeship with Keystone Masonry in Salisbury. With five years’ experience behind her, she starting to take commissions of her own working on restoration, new build, lettering carving and sculpture and now continues to…

Specialising in public art sculpture, Graeme Mitcheson graduated from Loughborough College of Art in 1995 and won his first significant commission on ‘Cures’, a 2-metre tall, hollow white limestone column with a spiralling inscription of more than 3,000 carved letters for the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. His other major works include an 8-tonne granite Millennium sundial in Leicestershire and four sculptural seats for New Walk in Leicester, an ancient walkway into the heart of the city. His tactile and eye-catching work can been seen all over the UK, with sculptures in Belfast, Northumberland and Wales. He will be bringing models and…

Renowned as the organiser of the Gloucester Stone Festival, Carrie Horwood’s career started at Christ Church College in Canterbury, where she achieved a degree in sculpture in 1999. She secured work experience in the mason’s yard at Canterbury Cathedral, which brought conviction to her decision that this was the career path that she wanted to pursue. In the summer of 1999 Carrie moved to Gloucestershire where she became the first woman apprentice stonemason at Gloucester Cathedral, and by 2005 had set up her own business undertaking many types of commissions involving letter cutting, sculptures and smaller designs. She will be…