Stone Carving classes and tuition

LEARN TO CARVE IN A SUPPORTIVE AND ENCOURAGING ENVIRONMENT


The courses are suitable for people with varying carving skills - from the complete beginner to the more experienced stone carver. You will be taught good working practice, tool handling and the basic stone carving techniques.

Students can work on their own designs or the tutor can suggest a start point, creating your own unique piece of work to take home at the end of the course.

Gray’s Stone Carving Studio is a spacious and light setting in which to explore stone carving, situated in the beautiful Chalke Valley, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.

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BURSARY SCHEME

As part of a commitment to help ensure tuition fees do not pose a barrier to students wishing to learn stone carving, we offer a bursary scheme to support them. If you can, please donate to the kitty.

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7 Week course


Monday morning or evening classes that run for seven consecutive weeks. Students can work on their own designs or be directed to a starting point for a variety of projects ranging from sculpture in the round, relief carving or architectural carving, creating their unique carving and taking it home with them at the end of the course. Tool skills and techniques are taught at all levels.

1 Day course


Complete beginners will be guided through the whole process, taught good working practice, tool handling and the basic stone carving techniques. The emphasis for those with some experience will be on improving their technique.

1:1 Private tuition


An environment in which skills and ideas are exchanged freely is strongly encouraged. Gray’s Carving Studio promotes a collegiate environment, with a particular emphasis on learning the craft (tool-skills and good working practice, out of which the creative process can arise). One-to-one classes also incorporate a holistic approach to learning with a therapeutic benefit. Price for 1:1 classes on enquiry.

meditation residential course


Coming soon…

Mindfulness practice is recognised as being therapeutic and helpful for wellbeing. Craft is an embodied activity at its best, using our bodies, minds and aesthetic sense. Combining both craft and mindfulness practice and using mindfulness as a lense to make things out of stone as an anchor and vehicle for mindfulness.

Upcoming courses


Saturday Course 19th October 2024

Date
Saturday 19th October 2024

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Saturday Course 23rd November 2024

Date
Saturday 23rd November 2024

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Monday Mornings November – December 2024

Date
4th November - 16th December

Duration
7 weeks - 9am to 12 noon

Cost
£235 + £65 Materials

Monday Mornings January – February 2025

Date
6th January – 10th February

Duration
6 weeks - 9am to 12 noon

Cost
£202 + £65 Materials

Saturday Course 22nd February 2025

Date
Saturday 22nd February 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Monday Mornings February-March 2025

Date
24th February – 31st March

Duration
6 weeks - 9am to 12 noon

Cost
£202 + £65 Materials

Saturday Course 22nd March 2025

Date
Saturday 22nd March 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Saturday Course 26th April 2025

Date
Saturday 26th April 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Monday Mornings May – June 2025

Date
12th May – 30th June(exc Bank holiday 26th May)

Duration
7 weeks - 9am to 12 noon

Cost
£235 + £65 Materials

Saturday Course 12th July 2025

Date
Saturday 12th July 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Saturday Course 20th September 2025

Date
Saturday 20th September 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Monday Mornings September – October 2025

Date
8th September – 20th October 2025

Duration
7 weeks - 9am to 12 noon

Cost
£235 + £65 Materials

Saturday Course 18th October 2025

Date
Saturday 18th October 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Monday Mornings November – December 2025

Date
3rd November – 15th December 2025 (Xmas lunch on 15th)

Duration
7 weeks - 9am to 12 noon

Cost
£235 + £65 Materials

Saturday Course 22nd November 2025

Date
Saturday 22nd November 2025

Duration
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Cost
£120 + £40 Materials

Weekend Stone Carving as a Meditation – June 2025

Date
Saturday 14th - Sunday 15th June

Duration
Weekend course - 9am - 5pm both days.

Cost
£300 Including Materials

COURSES TAILORED TO YOU


Our courses are open for all so it does not matter if you have experience in stone carving or are a complete beginner, we’ll help guide and support in whatever way you need in order to get the most out of your course and experience. We always say that the emphasis will be on improving technique.

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