Turning Medusa into stone

The Medusa carving is finished and is up on the wall already! Tom Clark did the carving (in Portland stone), and it looks fantastic… the wall is not actually finished yet, but I thought I’d post some photos while we still have scaffolding to get up close to the carving with. Ultimately the wall will be white, with a rough texture but not those wavy lines which are there so that the next layer of rendering sticks on.

See this post for the fallen-down-wall photos: https://nancyfarmer.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/its-an-ill-wind-that-blows-nobody-any-good/

Medusa – carving by Tom Clark from a sketch by Nancy Farmer

Medusa – carving by Tom Clark from a sketch by Nancy Farmer

Medusa – carving by Tom Clark from a sketch by Nancy Farmer

Medusa on the wall – rendering not yet finished, the wall will be a whitish colour once the rendering’s finished and the wall’s been painted painted.

Medusa on the wall, rendering not yet finished