S T O N E. L O V E

Continuing my adventures into carving I have been working on a piece of limestone, blessed at Canterbury Cathedral with the sculptor Donna Fleming at her studio in Ramsgate.

The piece is an anatomical looking heart. It’s intricate and at points seems to be lost to me but with patience and guidance from Donna, I think it’s beginning to work.

There is so much invested in this piece. I do feel like Frankenstein’s bride standing with a hot heart pulled from the body with flailing veins and arteries.

I find myself having a relationship with the stone I’m carving almost feeling it’s gritty pulse in my chest.

My father’s heart was 507grams . It malfunctioned a year ago and I feel literally my heart stopped too. I have been fairly numb since his death but I notice there are less tears in my art work and more actual tears as I grieve the greatest love of my life.

Stone can carry the enormous weight of my love and loss. I will exhibit it in the up coming exhibition at The Horsebridge in Whitstable in October. The theme of the exhibition is ‘ The love that lasts the longest.’ Which quite honestly I could make work for for decades to come.