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Carvings
by Margaret Foster
Profile
I believe that my interest in woodcarving started when I was at Primary
School. I used to love sharpening my pencils with a penknife (
we were allowed to have them in those days!). I loved the
feel of the sharp kinife shaving the wood, I also used to try and carve
patterns into the pencils and ruined many a one. However I
didn't do any proper carving until years later. Whilst on
holiday in Canada in about 1976, I bought a book on woodcarving (Ben
Hunt's Big Book of Whittling) and spent hours sitting around my
friend's Kitchen table carving a buffalo out of a little piece of
mahogany with my penknife.
In about 1978, I found an evening class in Glossop and attended for
about a year and have continued carving ever simce. I
'discovered' the Lancashire and Cheshire Woodcarvers at the GMEX centre
in 1993, joined ASAP and have continued to be a member ever since.
I like to carve in both relief and in the round, doing whatever catches
my imagination, be it wildlife, abstract, wood spirist, etc.
I use all kinds of different woods preferably not straight
pieces of kiln dried sawn wood, 'found wood' is more my preference, the
shape sometimes dictating the carving.
What do I get out of it? I would say: a challenge, total
absorption, relaxation, 'job' satisfaction, and the friendship
and company of like minded people who generously share their skills and
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Totem Pole in
Elm Height 30 inches |
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| Praying Hands in Lime 12 inch square |
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| Falcon in Lime
height 10 inch |
Bear Rock in Cedar 12 inch
diameter |
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| Dolphins in Lime 10 inch square |
Hedgehog |
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