Fiends, floors and fakery
A busy week. Mike’s superb carving of Grendel’s arm is ready for painting before it takes its rightful place above his carvings of the Beowulf story (Beowulf ripped the arm […]
The table, the huntress, and the swallows
A slightly calmer week of work saw good progress on the top table for the Saxon longhall and its trestle supports. Its deliberately narrow so that it can be easily […]
Experiments with columns
Our fresco columns were based on an example from a 4th century fresco from Lullington villa. We have been experimenting with variations on the theme. One has had a pleasing […]
Wood and walls
Another busy week, with more fresco work in the Roman building (with Diana, goddess of the hunt), making trestle supports for the top table in the longhall and a new […]
The eggy fresco experience
This week was all about eggs. Egg tempera (egg yolk, water and pigment) was used for the fake marbling panels, as they had dried out too far for the lime […]
Return of Fresco
Fresco day 2 went very well with a surprisingly good figure of Flora, Roman godess of spring and margarine. It is based on an image from Pompeii, so a bit […]
Let’s go fresco!
Day one of the Roman fresco experiment went well under the tutelage of expert Fleur Kelly. As Adrian and George put on the plaster skim, a hoard of markers and […]
Fresco experiment
Stgae 1 of the Roman fresco experiment happened last week, playing with plaster mixes and pigments. Mixed results but not too bad for a first try. Hopefully even better next […]
Beowulf story
Mike’s wonderful carving telling the story of the Beowulf legend are finished, ready for installation in the longhall. The story starts on the bottom left panel, goes up and then […]
The reveal
The old Natural England office is in the process of being demolished. Originally the office and store of Roger Rogers peat works, the buildings reached the end of their useful […]
