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Our mascot The Stone Devil has often been described as a Self Portrait of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I pick colours, shapes and sizes that look interesting. I have worked with different stone hardness from nail scratching Soapstone all the way up to chisel blunting Black Granite.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way I pick a particular stone depends on three things:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) I look for a specific size and shape and sometimes colour that will accommodate an existing idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) I find a stone with great colours and a big enough shape that suggests what might be trapped inside and I work towards that idea until the stone suggests something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) I find a great stone with amazing colours and haven’t a clue. So I buy it and look at it for a few weeks, months or years until I know what to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course there is always the old “standby”.<\/strong>
Buy it and drill a hole in it. The visual feedback of that first cut, will get you started on how it will progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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