We visited our stone carver friend, Lionel, once again and asked him to make another small sculpture for us. When we went to pick up the final version he had not yet placed the eyes in the dolphin so we spent 45 minutes watching him work and learned about how he started stone carving.
He had done wood carving in the past, but in 1999 he and a friend, a painter and sculptor, spent a summer on the beach near Albufeira where he learned stone sculpting from his friend. Because he loves it, he has been doing it ever since. He gathers the rocks from the beach at low tide and carts them home (John and I saw him by chance one morning on his way home with a large stone in a yellow plastic bag).
As he earns little from it he supplements his income doing house painting jobs in the area.
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