New project!

Over lockdown, we looked on with sadness as our landlord chopped down a beautiful walnut tree (which we excitedly harvested every year) to make way for a new development of apartments which he will start right outside our bedroom window at the beginning of June. The new building will cut in half our beautiful view of the mountains and will bring noise and disruption for two whole years. I have no idea how my husband, who works night shifts, will cope. 

As I sadly watched the desecration with my youngest daughter, I thought, the least he can do was give me a few pieces for my wood carving. It is always hard to source pieces of good wood to carve - soft wood, ie pine, is no good. So I went to him and interrupted his chainsaw fest to ask him, biting my tongue when all I wanted to say was 'why, oh why, did you have to cut down that beautiful tree?' 

He said 'sure' and 5 minutes later I was trolleying four pieces of heavenly wood back to my pad. I have somehow managed to cart the first piece over to Morgenland, the studio where my carving journey began, on the frame of my shopping trolley. It was so heavy and so bulky I must have looked pretty comical. 

I have made some drawings and have already envisaged the final product - the queen of wild pigs, Queen Nefertiti. This is the beginning of my next project. So excited.