Minerva skills
Minerva is a crafts based organization, along with our traditional masonry and conservation we have also developed expertise in areas such as:
Gilding
This weather cock form Marshfield church in Wiltshire was taken down repaired and regilded in our Frome workshops.
Lettercutting.
To compliment to our sculptural and masonry areas of expertise we
oftern undertake lettercutting in lime stone, Slate and more unusual
local stones such as Blue Lias.
Here Dieter is cutting letters in to
a slab of Lias sourced from Ashen Cross quarry nr Somerton.
This Commission on behalf of foreground projects
and working with the artist Cornelia Parker, who as one of Britain’s
most respected artists, is best known for her powerful
transformations of found objects and her fascination with the
relationship between destruction and creation.
This project will fuse Philip Larkin’s infamous poem This Be The Verse, with its irreverent but incisive analysis of family dysfunction, with the ornamental skills of the stonemason to produce a meditation on family and personal responsibility that is as humorous and irreverent as it is thought-provoking.
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Stonecarving
Decorative Plasterwork
