Innovative

Ben Harms Hummingbird has inspired Poet, Oliver Comins to write; The Hummingbird was an Afterthought Trees growing in this place did not last long –

Grinling Gibbons, as famous for his carved cravat as any other piece; Hugh has taken the fashion accessory to the buttonhole. A suite of adornments

‘A Linden Antiphon’ was commissioned in 2021 by Jonathan Louth to be set to music by Alex Woolf for ArchiCantiores and the Master Carvers’ Association, with first readings and performances during the Grinling Gibbons’ Society’s festival year marking the tercentenary of Grinling Gibbons’ death.

Echoing Notes Master Carvers produced a suite of seven music stands to celebrate the tercentenary of Thomas Chippendale Snr.’s birth, 2018. Individual and innovative, they

Based on the sheet music carved on the left hand side book of the ‘musical trophy’ in the dining room at Petworth House.

Hugh Buchanan is a painter of the unseen as well as the seen. He gives us the atmosphere rather than a straightforward portrait of a place.

These are a small selection of paintings from the exhibition ‘Far-seeing Eye’ held at Coningsby Gallery in London in 2019.

Grinling Gibbons contrasted limewood and oak to creative effect, MC Vice President Simon Smith has contrasted materials with great skill and sensitivity to enrich his

‘My recently finished plaque in Carrara marble of explorer and botanical illustrator Marianne North. She has a building in the grounds of Kew Gardens which houses her entire output of nearly 1000 paintings.’

These sandstone tablets came about primarily as a reaction to formal lettering, by which I mean Roman capitals hand drawn and carved for inscriptions and