I absolutely love it, I really do, I love it, it's a fantastic, fantastic job.
Painting arts, making stuff, I've always wanted to do that, always, there's no doubt about
that at my mind. I knew from an early age that that's all I really interested in really.
I'm happy with it, it's fantastic, it's really good.
Ah, it's something I did, that's the thing, you can't actually have enough time in the
way to get them all made, that's the problem. It's a general rule, I'm always making something
I want to make, so that's good as far as I'm concerned.
I like naive work, you know, something that's really brutal, like medieval, early medieval
work, it's quite sort of wonky and, you know, disjointed figures and funny legs and arms
and feet round the room, I love all of that.
Sometimes the carving's better half way through than it is when it's finished, actually.
Improvements are added in and I just lose it sometimes, you know, I feel I do anyway.
You know, often wonder, sometimes you're just sitting there tapping away, you know,
I'm conjuring up other ideas, new things to make, and it's always there in my mind of
something else that's got to be made and do.
Sometimes you get little flashes of ideas in your mind of the sort of things that you
can make, you know, and you do think, ah, right, okay, there's an idea, I'll go for that at some stage.
Let's get this one out of the way.
Machinery is an accessory, I mean, it's like noisier and dusty, but I try and separate the two areas,
the workshop here is really handwork and all the dusting, noisy work's done down in the back.
You can really file into it with all the heavy guns going, get all the cutting done, get all the noise,
get all the guts of it out, get to where you want to be, bring it in here and then you sort of go
into a different mode of time and thinking space and creativity and all that sort of business comes into it.
Inspiration comes in all directions really, church architecture, very, very basic sort of naive medieval work.
Sometimes I used to do dreams, I gave up on that.
Nive paintings, visions in my mind of seeing particular people, sometimes I think, wow, you know, that will stay with me.
Ah, there's so many things out there to do.
The best thing to do is just get on and do it really, you know.
I've got a sketchbook which I use in the evenings for lots of ideas and that's just full of squiggles and things like that.
Sometimes I think to myself, I'm better off not doing those drawings, but just getting the lump of stone and carving,
getting something down, you know, doing something immediately.
As much as I'm enjoying doing this now, I'm really looking forward to it finishing.
Thank you for the girls.
