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Natural Stone Award 2016 over the years!

Mike Slotboom and Koen van Velzen receive Stone Award 2016 for their work

natural stone award 2016, awarded to Koen van Velzen sculptor, for his work on a canopy in Udelfanger sandstone, to St. John's Cathedral in 's-Hertogenboschnatural stone award 2016, awarded to Koen van Velzen sculptor, for his work on a canopy in Udelfanger sandstone, to St. John's Cathedral in 's-HertogenboschToday was a day of celebration: Slotboom stonemason Mike and I were awarded the medal for our work on Stone the sandstone canopy on which we both worked for St. John's Cathedral in Den Bosch. The Natural Stone Award is awarded to persons or assigned to projects that receive the qualification "excellent craftsmanship" from a competent jury from the trade. …Read the whole article… →

Canopy finished

Canopy for the St. John's Cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch in Udelfanger sandstone

ornaments on a canopy for the St. John's Cathedral in's-Hertogenbosch in Udelfanger sandstone

The baldachin for St. John's Cathedral in Den Bosch is ready. The stonemasonry was made by Mike Slotboom of Slotboom Steenhouwers in Winterswijk; I carved the ornaments on this piece. The trickiest of these were the hanging parts on the front, the so-called suspended flowers. …Read the whole article… →

A baldachin for St. John's Cathedral

Where the ornaments should go are now still cubes

the stonemason has done a great job. Where the ornaments should go are now still cubes

-to the first post about this restoration-

While I'm waiting for the stone for the Falcon from Franeker to arrive, the other work, in the meantime, just goes on. Right now I'm working on a sandstone baldachin for St. John's Cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch. A baldachin is a type of canopy under which the statue of a saint is supposed to stand. …Read the whole article… →