About

I have always been fascinated by the stone and by man’s ability to shape it. I received a classical education, so Greek and Roman marbles were always staring at me from the pages of my school books. And so my encounter with stone carving was inevitable.

I started carving when I was just a teen in my countryside home in Sardinia. At the time, I was using tools that I found in my father’s garage: a carpenter’s hammer and an iron wedge (the one used to knock down walls). The results were not very good, as you can imagine given the choice of tools, but that did not discourage me. After a break of almost 10 years, I joined the Skelton’s workshop in Sussex, UK. With the help of Paulien Gluckman and Helen Marie Skelton and a better set of tools, I started carving on a regular basis. And oh, how I love it.