Tom Clark - Stonecarver

There are still places available for the following weekend courses:

2010
September.............  18th and 19th
October.................  16th and 17th
November..............  13th and 14th

2011
March....................  5th and 6th
March....................  26th and 27th
April.......................  9th and 10th
June......................  4th and 5th
July........................  9th and 10th
September............  24th and 25th
October.................  15th and 16th
November.............  12th and 13th

Tom also holds day and evening workshop sessions, please call to arrange - 01935 822833

Tom Clark

Tom began carving in 1974, first as a monumental mason and then as an ecclesiastical mason serving an apprenticeship at Chichester Cathedral. He became self-employed in 1981 and over the years worked on many large and interesting restoration projects including St. George's Chapel in Windsor, Westminster Abbey, The National Gallery, The Public Records Office in London and Ely Cathedral.

In the early 1990s Tom’s focus shifted to the development of his own sculptural pieces, inspired largely by travels to India and Egypt as well as his love of medieval art. His original designs sell to private and corporate clients worldwide and through a number of galleries across the country.

Tom engages regularly in community led public art projects. The most recent of which is a public art commission for Sheffield City Council – a series of 12 sculptures marking a route around the city and forming part of a larger regeneration programme. 

He is passionate about making this forgotten skill accessible to all and promoting the satisfaction derived from the creative process and the creation of an end product that can be shared and enjoyed by others. To this end he regularly runs stonecarving courses, both at his studio and off-site at various locations across the south of England, including a series of relief carving courses at the V&A in London in 2009.

Tom lives and works at Hurst near Martock, Somerset where his 16th century hamstone house and grounds hosts a collection of workshops which has proved an ideal location for inviting students onsite to partake in sculpture and stonecarving courses.