Thinking With My Hands

The creative potential contained here in the palms of each hand is immense. The new ipad and the common stone may seem to be random unrelate...

In a culture determined to explain everything away, whether through science or religion, it is gratifying to discover there are still stones...

Thinking with my hands, which has turned out to involve a higher level of commitment than I first realized, is nevertheless proving to be a ...

One has to wonder about one hit wonders. As a waller, the idea of not being able to consistently repeat what you do successfully and to the ...

When Joe and I are working building walls we often listen to music. The music alternates from jazz to classical to rock. We like to keep it ...

It's generally not a good thing to be recognized as a one hit wonder, unless of course you build dry stone walls and split stones for a ...

It seems that some days I can be in the zone and other days I'm not. Some days my hands know exactly what to do and other days they fum...

The Dry Stone Waller Revisits Spring's Surfacing Fieldstones Before stones of eggs hatch feathered heads or tadpoles eel from gel-a-...

We had a meeting today with a number of people involved with the DSWAC who are all still very much interested in promoting the quality and t...

This image of a new basketball net fixed to an old dry stone barn in a barnyard in Cumbria presented an interesting juxtaposition of ideas. ...

Walling isn't backbreaking. It is labour intensive, but it isn't really strenuous work. That's why it is always funny to hear pe...

Where it began, I can't begin to know when But then I know it's growing high It wasn't the string, whooo The string seems to loo...

At one time the expression "digitally manipulated" referred to moving things around by hand, using some or all of one's finge...

Today we waved good bye to Cumbria and the great congregation of dry stone walls circumscribing many of the farm fields in Great Langdale. T...

Along with seven other people and myself, Martyn Leaver participated in a walling weekend at Cleabarrow farm near Windermere on the second w...

On the outside my hands may look inactive and merely in my pockets 'waiting around', so to speak, but on the inside they are busy fi...

Master-craftsman and chief examiner for the DSWA of UK, Andy Louden, took us on an all day tour of some interesting dry stone walls and brid...

Last week we were repairing an old wall at Cleabarrow farm near Windermere. Martyn, Joe, Pat and Tony, all members of the DSWA of UK carrie...

DSWA secretary Alison Shaw met with her Canadian counterpart Mary Harris in the lounge of the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel to discuss new DSWA bo...

It was about 8 years ago that I saw my first dry stone bridge. My friend and colleague Norman Haddow took me to see this bridge which he had...