Pic; Larry Cummins: XX Des O’Driscoll: Stone carver Nigel Baxter working on a bust of the traditional stone carver/sculptor Seamus Murphy at Crawford Art College.
It will take approx 120hours of working by hand, with no power tools, to create the carving in the Portland stone, (mined) in Dorset, England.
A Fund.it campaign is underway to fund its public presentation and installation.
In the background are his drawings from a photo of Seamus Murphy.
Pic; Larry Cummins