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A small gravestone
12-12-201309-02-2026 Latest projects
Besides work aan it marble statue of Shirdi Sai Baba orderand occasionally other assignments in between. Last week I carved a gravestone with two angels in Belgian blue stone, see below.

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Eusebius | Restoration
A Bear with a honeypot (flying buttress figurine)
The Bear That Didn't Look Like a Bear And then the bear came with his long snout and blew… no, he ate all the honey. This 'bear’ was the next flying buttress figurine for St. Eusebius's Church in Arnhem which was to be copied into new stone. Only you needed to look very carefully in order to see a bear. I…
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Latest projects | Restoration | Saint John's Cathedral
copy of Thomas Aquinas completed
Thomas in two parts After long interruptions (Making pinnacles for the Eusebiuskerk and cantichogels for the Domkerk) the statue of Thomas Aquinas is finally finished. In my previous blog posts you can read who this man was and how I reconstructed the image, and how I started copying the image…
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Eusebius | Restoration
Corbel: A man with bird
The second corbel I copied for scaffold layer no 10 of the Eusebius Tower was a man with a bird. Like the original, this copy in Muschelkalk limestone is carved pretty rough, with the tooth chisel marks still clearly visible. This gives the surface of the stone a lively effect; the chisel marks enhance the shapes of the man and the…
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Eusebius | Restoration
Flying buttress figurine: A Foolish Maiden
A Foolish Virgin Of the flying buttresses we are now dealing with, each have their own theme. There are seven trumpet angels, people portraying the Beatitudes, a group of Wise Virgins and this image from the last arc depicts a Foolish Virgin. Briefly, the story goes like this: this girl is waiting for the groom,…
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Restoration
Two broken putti and a fallen Artemis
Last month I was offered an interesting challenge: two eighteenth-century putti of Bentheimer sandstone and a terracotta sculpture of Artemis. All three were seriously damaged and to me fell the task to restore them in all their splendour. The two broken putti came originally from an estate in North-Holland, where they apparently had always been in the open air…
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