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Pippa Unwin

Pippa Unwin

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…
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Jude Tucker

Jude Tucker

Jude Tucker’s education in art commenced in 1966 and she continued to study art until the mid-1970s exploring many mediums including ceramics, printmaking and large charcoal drawings. It was only after visiting the Portland Sculpture Trust in Tout Quarry on the Dorset island in 2003, in an attempt to recover from a period of ‘artists block’, that she turned to stone. This marked the start of her training in stonemasonry during which time she had the opportunity to design and carve two grotesques for St Georges Chapel, Windsor. She was offered her first exhibition in 2007 and continues to exhibit…
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Graeme Mitcheson

Graeme Mitcheson

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…
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Carrie Horwood

Carrie Horwood

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…
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Health

Here I have produced a list, at the moment short, to which additional themes will be added in due course. Click on the links for further info. from the list below:- The PandemicThe NHSBeing Well
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The Pandemic

The Pandemic

Credit: CDC/Science Photo Library There is so much to say about the current pandemic, it seems the place to start is where it all began, apparently in the city of Wuhan in China. Wuhanvirus The above image, taken using an electron micrograph, shows virus particles from the first person in the United States found to be infected. It appears the virus cells have been coloured/photoshopped yellow and red and the protein spikes (at least those visible around the perimeter) have been coloured green. Researchers call the virus SARS-CoV-2. However, the media opted for coronavirus and also COVID-19, supposedly because these…
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Why China isn’t celebrating the phase one trade deal

Why China isn’t celebrating the phase one trade deal

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek up that mountain, would I? You bet your buttons I would. Here’s lives at the intersection of fun and scary. One of my companions summed the whole experience up perfectly. He leaned back in his chair at dinner that night, shrimp taco in hand, “These are the kinds of experiences…
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Developing self-control through the wonders of intermittent fasting

Developing self-control through the wonders of intermittent fasting

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Build your own laptop screen with recycled parts

Build your own laptop screen with recycled parts

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek up that mountain, would I? You bet your buttons I would. Here’s lives at the intersection of fun and scary. One of my companions summed the whole experience up perfectly. He leaned back in his chair at dinner that night, shrimp taco in hand, “These are the kinds of experiences…
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Sassy’s partnership with MetroMultiMedia helps them both

Sassy’s partnership with MetroMultiMedia helps them both

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek up that mountain, would I? You bet your buttons I would. Here’s lives at the intersection of fun and scary. One of my companions summed the whole experience up perfectly. He leaned back in his chair at dinner that night, shrimp taco in hand, “These are the kinds of experiences…
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