POETRY IN STONE
The pure lines of Dominic Welch’s stone sculptures settle serenely into nature and have garnered international recognition
Celebrating the strength and serenity of stone, Dominic Welch composes poetic sculptures that feel strikingly contemporary yet agelessly at home in natural settings. He sculpts almost exclusively in creamy-coloured Carrara marble and blue-grey Kilkenny limestone: yin and yang in terms of hue but sharing the quality of barely discernible grain. “Both have so much beauty in them with their subtle marbling. I don’t like stones that are too noisy,” he says.
Working solo in his Devon workshop, Welch extracts forms from blocks of stone with hammers, chisels and air tools as well as stone grinders. The final polishing is always done by hand, although, even at this point, he might put small marks in with a chisel. He can have as many as 10 pieces of work on the go at a time; some made to commission, some for sale through exhibitions.
“It is hard to put
