We celebrate our first 12 months of the podcast with a rundown of our top tips, a few old and a few new to add to your carving repertoire. 

Top tips links below

Welcome to Letter Exchange

Hand made carvings, letter press & personalised gifts. — The Lettering Arts Trust

Kirsten Buick on Edmonia Lewis - The Great Women Artists | Podcast on Spotify

Listen — The Sculptor's Funeral (thesculptorsfuneral.com)

How to make a pencil extender (youtube.com)

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Part 2 of our interview with Peter Randall-Page RA - - We reccomend listening to part 1 of this interview before you listen to part 2

Peter has an international reputation for his sculpture, drawings and prints. His work is held in numerous collections throughout the world.

He very generously agreed to be on our podcast and we are delighted to share our interview we recorded with him. We continue this conversation with him in part 2.

He shares his insights and knowledge about stone, art and life, and the connections between them all in this fascinating conversation.

Links below are where you can see examples of Peter's work

Peter Randall-Page - artist, sculptor and Royal

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2oBRH5RIkUAdAcHJdJuhSY

https://www.churchillfellowship.org/

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Peter Randall Page RA has an international reputation for his sculpture, drawings and prints. His work is held in numerous collections throughout the world.

He very generously agreed to be on our podcast and we are delighted to share our interview we recorded with him.

He shares his insights and knowledge about stone, art and life, and the connections between them all in this fascinating conversation.

Links below are where you can see examples of Peter's work

Peter Randall-Page - artist, sculptor and Royal

'The One and The Many' by Peter Randall-Page | Fitzroy Place

Welcome to Letter Exchange

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Heather Newton is the Fabric Projects Manager at Canterbury Cathedral. We talk to her about her career progression, her work and the training scheme she helped to develop.

With colleagues from other cathedrals she became a founder member of the Cathedrals’ Workshop Fellowship, (CWF), a collaboration between ten of England’s cathedrals to deliver enhanced training for crafts and trades-people working in cathedrals and the wider historic buildings sector. Heather wrote and have led the conservation module of the course and is a member of the management and delivery group (see The CWF Foundation Degree in Applied Historic Building Conservation and Repair. 

Cathedrals' Workshop Fellowship – Supporting the development of traditional craft skills for the conservation, maintenance & repair of cathedrals & historic buildings. (cwfcathedrals.co.uk)

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In this episode Nina and Charlotte talk to the amazing Annet Stirling, discussing her work with Incisive Letterwork, Ian Hamilton Finley and other insights after a long career working with letters and stone.

Cut - A fantasitc short film

Watch this | Incisive Letterwork

Designers and letter carvers | Incisive Letterwork

Fontself - The Easiest Font Maker For All Creatives

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In this episode Nina and Charlotte discuss the joys of working onsite and the correct way to place an order for stone from a quarry or stone supplier as well as offering up a Top Tip to help you in the workshop.

Have a questison or tip for the fitting room, want us to discuss a particular topic, then send your nice questions and comments to 'The Stone Carving and Lettering Takeaway'

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Southern Stone – Southern Stone and Tools (southern-stone.co.uk)

Natural Stone Supplier (amarestone.com)

Portland stone | Homepage | Albion Stone

In this episode Nina and Charlotte talk about what happens when you make a mistake carving your stone, be it spelling or taking away to much stone, and ways of dealing with this.

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In this episode we talk to the wonderful Alan Micklethwaite, authur of 'Restoration Stone Carving', stone carver, conservator, sculptor and fabulous interviewee.

https://instagram.com/micklethwaitestudios

https://instagram.com/alanmicklethwaitesculpture

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STONE WILL ANSWER by Beatrice Searle

In this episode we talk to Beatrice about her book 'Stone Will Answer', a beautifully written account of her journey pulling a 40KG stone on a jouney of 100s of miles, travelling by boat from Orkney and walking over 500 miles through Southern Norway to Nidaros Cathedral.

Beatrice is a stone mason, artist, lettercarver and author.

https://instagram.com/beatrice.searle?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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In this episode Charlotte and Nina discuss carving angels, visiting the Donatello exhibition in London, fixing memorials on site as well as tips and tricks in the fitting room to help with your carvings.