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GUEST SPEAKERS
We occassionally invite Guest Speakers, often professional carvers, to our meetings. In the past they have included Alan (Lall) Simms, see some of his work below.
Alex Jones, see more of his work below.
Alex Jones, with 7ft dandelion at our 2016 "Dorset Do" show
Mick Stidiver, see some of his work below.
Soap Carving with Allan Mechen
Martin Turner at "the sign of the Parrot"
The "Bottom"
Rear of the "Bottom"
"Cornucopia"
Our next speaker will be Lee Dickenson from "Squashed Apple Woodcarving"
on December 17th
Unfortunately we didn't get any photos of this event at
St. Leonards & St. Ives village hall, BH24 2PH We did , however, have a very memorable evening with Lee
On December the 19th 2023 we had another of our special Christmas meetings with our sharing buffet of food supplied by our members.
This time we invited back our old friend Wood Sculptor Alex Jones from Winchester
Alex showing us a slide of his wall-mounted silver gilded fleas
Alex showing us a slide of his deep-relief carving a tribute to a musician
Alex casually chatting with members of our group after his talk
We are hoping that Alex will come back and join our group in the near future to give us a days training on a new project which we hope to complete in one day.
More news on this ides to follow soon
On December the 14th 2025 we had another of our special Christmas meetings with our sharing buffet of food supplied by our members.
This time we invited a new friend Furniture maker Stuart Linford alias "Winston Churchill" from High Wycombe.
Stuart gave us an extensive and very informative talk on the history of the "Windsor" chair, with many examples of his work.
Stewart with his replica of the famous Winton Churchill chair complete with secret humidor store for his cigars.
I was able to shake hands with the great man himself while our Graham and his wife try out one of the many examples.
This was one of our very best Xmas meetings to date. Stewart is an extremely good speaker with a great sense of humour and he bonded very quickly with our audience of mainly Woodcarvers and a disappontingly few Stickmakers. We had somewhere between 20 and 30 people attend all together, so it made the event worthwhile. As usual the buffet was well supported with a good variety of food supplied by our members. This was a free event and it was a shame some more of the Stickmakers didn't come.
STEWART WILL BE BACK NEXT YEAR WITH HIS TALK ABOUT:-
"THE ARTISANS OF ENGLISH WOODLANDS IN VICTORIAN TIMES"
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