Sculpture
Tony Viney lives locally and makes unique pieces from Purbeck
Stone. The stone is famous for it's interesting qualities, some with millions
of tiny fossils embedded in the stone.
Tony lives in an isolated old stone barn, where he generates his electricity
from the wind and the sun at Worth Matravers within easy reach of the
quarries where he gets his stone.
Peter
Boyce-Tomkins
Peter has been working with wood for over fifty years and derives great satisfaction from transforming a plain plank into something of grace and beauty.
He has also spent a similar amount of time sailing and because of this, was commissioned to make a memorial trophy in the form of a sail.
This was the inspiration for Peter to start producing work based on the various sail shapes seen in the gallery.
Whenever possible, wood from a known source is used, such as the oak that had been in a Somerset church bell tower for over 600 years or another piece of oak that had stood on Cape Cornwall for over 60 years as a bench. However, more is sourced from hardwood timber merchants.