Sadly I am not doing any major events or competitions this year in order to make room for other projects. However, watch this space for next year!!
A summary of my year…
Nov 2 2009Here’s a link to an article giving an overview of this year
The Best Of Chester – Simon O’Rourke Tree Carving
Woodfest 09 – St Asaph, North Wales
Red Kite and Rabbits in Oak
Close up of Red Kite
Kite and Rabbits
Chetwynd 09, Canada – 3rd place
3rd Place at the Chetwynd Chainsaw Carving Championships
working on ‘Lancelot’
Competitions happening this year
Apr 14 2008I’m concentrating this year on buikding the foundations of the business and getting established in Ellesmere, Shropshire, where I will be opening a school of tree carving.
Here are the few competitions I’ll be doing this year.
The Husky Cup – May 9th and 10th
The English Open in Tatton Park – August Bank Holiday Weekend
The Scottish Open in Carrbridge – August 30th
any more I will post here. information on these competitions can be obtained through the links on the home page.
Most inspiring piece of art
Oct 16 2007The first dutch international competition was held last week (12th-14th Oct) in Vaassen. I got a prize for the most inspiring piece of artwork for my windmill. nice…
The quality of these competitions is going up at a rate of knots… check out www.fasnacarving.nl and look at the gallery.
First at last!!!
Aug 30 2007First place in the all power tools section of the combo event at Tatton Park! pictures will follow… I also managed to get 2nd place in the all chainsaw part.
Check out www.englishopenchainsawcompetition.co.uk to see the rules I had to follow.
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