Introduction
Katherine is a London-based self-employed architectural stone carver/sculptor, letter cutter and mason who has worked consistently for the last 15 years in this field.
In this capacity she has worked on many major and minor restorations projects in the UK and Australia encompassing a wide range of architectural styles. For example she has just finished modelling and carving portraiture heads for Westminster Abbey Chapter House. She has completed several original commissions in her own right and is developing this side of the business.
Katherine has a passion for stonework and she prides herself in producing the highest quality work, using traditional skills and tools. Her London workshop has ample space and machinery to handle large stones. Enabling her to carve the 2 metre high Lion and Unicorn statues on The London Hippodrome, Leicester Square. And also the marble altar suite (part of re-ordering of SS Peter & Paul, Wolverhampton, which was winner of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Presidents Award 2009 for new work in churches).
She offers creative suggestions, modelling and design, discussions of stone techniques and fixing in location.
Biography
Katherine qualified with an Art Foundation certificate and then went on to train to work with stone on the world-renowned stone masonry, carving and letter cutting course at Weymouth College, Dorset, UK
She was awarded overall college winner of a boss-stone carving competition in her final year. She qualified with a Distinction in carving and Credits in masonry and letter cutting in 1996/7.
She then honed her skills by working for 2 years as an apprentice carver at York Minster and was involved in the Millennium restoration project of the carving of the Great West Door. Her letter cutting skills led her to be chosen to produce a plaque commemorating the unveiling of the West Door carving by HRH the Duke of York.
Katherine spent four years in London working as an employee of several major stonework companies. She then set up her own business Worthington Stone Carving in 2004.
For further examples of my work please see my website http://www.worthingtonstonecarving.co.uk
Contact details
Work tel: 07900881027
Website: http://www.worthingtonstonecarving.co.uk
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Image Gallery
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Title: Westminster Abbey Chapter House
Media: Stone
Description: Replacement Medieval Bishop