On one of our walks John and I passed a small house where we noticed a table behind the fence/wall on which there were a few stone sculptures - a fish and a dolphin and others which I don't recall. The person who created them was at the back carving something and when he noticed us he came to the front to show his work to us. He told us that he picks up the stones on the beach (likely limestone) and brings them to his house to carve them. He has been doing this as a winter "job" since 1999. He had been interested in carving figures in wood but a friend introduced him to the idea of using stone so he decided to have a go at it and he has been quite successful at both carving and selling his "product".
We thought it would be nice to have one of his stone figures, but the ones that he had available were a bit big and heavy to cart home on the plane. About 3 days before we were to leave for home Ruth and I decided to go by and see if he had anything small enough to pack into already limited available suitcase space. He told us that he didn't but he had recently picked up some small stones and would make a small figure for us from a rock which he showed us (already marked) and have it ready for us the day before we left. He was true to his word, so we were able to bring back a small stone carving of a dolphin as well as pictures of the artist, whose name is Lionel, the original stone and the dolphin figure that emerged from the stone. Cool.
By the way, Lionel has a wonderfully friendly dog named... you guessed it, Stone!
In the first photo Lionel is holding the stone which became our dolphin (check out the bottom left corner of the photo to see a larger version he had carved). In the second photo he is holding the finished carving and the final one is a clearer picture of it sitting on our stereo/tv cabinet.
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