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One of the topics of conversation David Wilson and I kept coming back to when he and his wife were visiting us was the concept of 'p...

Cairns at Cuween   Hill c airns, turbines   and transmitters I recently visited Mainland Orkney, famed for its world heritage statu...

Mary-Marie Anne contrary, Look how this garden grows.  With Hostas tall and taller walls Of pretty stones all in rows -...

Last night David Wilson led us on a marvellous visual journey into his world of stone. Many of us were in awe of the caliber and creat...

The well known Scottish artist David Wilson who designed and built the much admired Edinburgh International Airport dry stone roundabout ...

The other dry stone bridge in Perth Ontario

Surprisingly, we can teach stones to lean on each other. If they are sitting flat on the horizontal they have little dynamic stren...

We All of us Are looking  To find a way of connecting. We learn the principles of connection sometimes  By experimenting putting things ...

One of the students taking the bridge building course I finished teaching at the Haliburton School of Art and Design brought his gra...

My client wrote to say someone who saw a photo of it asked if the thing moved when you stood on it. Good idea, but the answer is n...

This 19 foot diameter 'earth and stone' composition combines vertically laid random bedrock limestone surrounding a slanted circu...

At the client’s property, in the gallery/studio space adjacent to where we were going to be building, we first placed the small sand bo...

We were working all last week doing a dry stone installation in the Perth Ontario area, based on a Sketchup design I showed the clie...

Yesterday was my first visit back to Perth Bridge since we were there building it . It's also after that great June flood where the...

  Again this year, Dry Stone Walling Across Canada sponsored another graduating student in the Algonquin College award program. They were...

A piece by Irish artist and dry stone waller Sunny Wieler  http://www.stoneart.ie     is installed on the client s property where we a...

DSWAC in conjunction with Fleming College - Haliburton School of Art + Design, completed a week long course on teaching students how t...