School Memorial, Rochdale

[woodsculptor]

We carved this memorial to 6 kids at a Primary School in Rochdale earlier in the week. Paul from Tree Heroes had rung us the night before to see if we could squeeze it in for the official opening of the memorial garden. Although we are very busy at the moment we can always jiggle stuff about and so we said yes. Budget as well as time constraints (we only had the day to do it in) meant that we had to keep the detail very simple so we came up with this stylised daisy, butterfly, ladybird sculpture with the six children dancing around the bottom. I think the naive style worked in the context of where the sculpture was sited and who it was for. We were still hard pushed to get it done and I'm sure the neighbours loved the dulcet sound of chainsaw engines at 7.30 at night (got it done at 8pm)! The families of the children and the School were chuffed with it

[easy-lift guy]

Really beautiful, will you clear coat it or let it season naturally?

easy-lift guy

[woodsculptor]

Really beautiful, will you clear coat it or let it season naturally?

easy-lift guy

 

Thanks :-)

We teak oil everything unless we have our arm severely twisted by the client to varnish them, never really got on with the shiny look.

 

Kim

[skyhuck]

Thats really nice, had the 6 children died???

[woodsculptor]

Thats really nice, had the 6 children died???

 

Thank you, yes it was for six kids who had sadly died

 

Kim

[skyhuck]

Thats really sad, what happened??

[woodsculptor]

Thats really sad, what happened??

 

They didn't tell me so I didn't feel right asking. Added a bit of pressure to the whole thing but made it extra special when the families liked it :-)

 

Kim

[skyhuck]

They didn't tell me so I didn't feel right asking. Added a bit of pressure to the whole thing but made it extra special when the families liked it :-)

 

Kim

 

Fair enough.

 

I would have had to ask, I'm going to google it and see if I can find out.

[tree monkey]

quality work:thumbup:

[skyhuck]

Fair enough.

 

I would have had to ask, I'm going to google it and see if I can find out.

 

Can't find anything on the net, there were many deaths of children from house fires in Rochdale, so maybe it was that??

 

So sad to hear of young lives snuffed out so long before their time.