Dry Stone Canada Stone Festival. Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada. In late September Canada’s dry stone wall association Dry Stone Canada returned to the loca...

I was very fortunate to get to do a bit of a North American stone tour this Autumn, starting off with a return to the Dry Stone Canada, stone festival on Amh...

I was delighted to be invited by George Gunn to speak about 'the creative use of stone in landscape design' at his Northstone 58 Stonefest on the most northe...

Barcelona, the city of mosaics!

September was a busy month for stone festivals. First we returned to ‘The Gathering of Stones‘ site to put the final arch in place and to make plans for the ...

Well the stone festival season is well and truly upon us. This year I started my festival season with a trip to Austria’s largest wine-producing town, Langen...

So after a number of years of procrastination and dreaming about going to StoneFest, this year I finally made it over to Seattle to attend the event. Procras...

Last September my wife had to go to a conference to Helsinki, Finland, so I decided to tag along and see what Helsinki is all about. On arriving I quickly no...

The use of glass in the landscape is something that has interested me for some time, and is something I hope to incorporate into one of my stone projects at ...

Back during the August bank holiday weekend, we arranged to visit some old friends near in County Waterford. Heading down the motorway, our GPS tells us to t...

A few weeks ago, my wife had to go to Krakow for a conference, so we decided to make a city break out of it as neither of us had been to Poland before. Krakow...

Hand with Reflecting Sphere by M. C. Escher 1935 Ever since my art teacher in school handed me a book depicting this picture by M. C. Escher, and a mirror ba...

You may be forgiven for thinking that this is a scene from a remake of the Flintstones by Tim Burton., but believe it or not, it is a real house in the rural...

A few months ago, I was asked fellow garden blogger Britt Conley from the Photo Garden Bee to partake in a photo meme. For the post I chose a photo I took at...

A few months back while researching for my post The Shell House at Ballymaloe Cookery School, I came across this very different and quite literal Shell House...

Here is some stone art in its most gigantic of scales. I recently saw this monumental piece of stone art on the telly and was very intrigued. Just down the r...