Hand carved Welsh slate house sign This hand carved Welsh slate house sign was designed by Martin Cook for a client who did not want a run of the mill sign. Normandy House is a beautiful, elegant house and a house sign to enhance that was necessary. Martin Cook used the very best Welsh slate [...]
Riven Welsh Slate Standing Stone by Martin Cook This elegant 8' high riven Welsh slate standing stone by Martin Cook was recently installed in the clients garden. It was a private commission, a gift to Martin's clients husband. This riven Welsh slate standing stone was designed and hand carved by Martin Cook at his Buckinghamshire [...]
Hand carved Welsh slate headstone Martin Cook has recently installed this beautiful hand carved Welsh slate headstone. The memorial was designed to include lettering on the front and back of the headstone. Martin hand carved the daffodils on the head of the memorial. All the carving on the Welsh slate headstone was done by hand [...]
This photo shows a detail of a Welsh slate memorial that I am currently hand carving
Gardeners World BBC 2 14th October featuring Martin Cook You will remember from Martin's blog in August that Gardeners World BBC came to Dovecot to film Martin. The episode that features Martin talking to Joe Swift about the use of stone carvings in gardens will be on this Friday ,14th October on BBC 2. Joe [...]
LEARNING TO CARVE LETTERING IN STONE WITH MARTIN COOK Learning to carve lettering in stone with Martin Cook at Dovecot Studio In July Martin promoted his letter carving courses at Hampton Court Flower Show. The response was huge. We have just held the first Martin Cook lettering in stone weekend course. It [...]
Hand carved garden artworks for sale by Martin Cook As previously mentioned in Martin's blog, BBC Gardeners World came to Dovecot to film for Gardeners World. During the filming Joe Swift explored the gardens at Dovecot and discovered hidden artworks made by Martin Cook. These pieces are now for sale. Each piece of garden artwork [...]
BBC Gardeners World filming at Martin Cook Studio This week Joe Swift and the BBC Gardeners World team visited Martin Cook's garden and workshop to film a piece that will be shown on BBC in August. Joe Swift talked to Martin about his history of Chelsea Flower Show medal winning gardens. Martin has designed three [...]
LETTER CARVING WORKSHOP WITH MARTIN COOK LETTER CARVING WORKSHOP WITH MARTIN COOK 1ST & 2ND OCTOBER 2016 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL RE COURSES AND ACCOMMODATION 01494 880853 Hand carved lettering by Martin Cook Martin Cook hand draws lettering on to stone
Learn to carve lettering with Martin Cook Learn to carve lettering with Martin Cook at this studio in Buckinghamshire. Martin will be running a two day workshop from his Buckinghamshire studio on 1st & 2nd October 2016. This will be a great course for beginners and the more experienced. The day will start with a [...]
