#snowsculpture

Attended the Sapporo Snow Festival 2019 at Odori Park where we saw snow sculptures

I remember most projects I have done and the experiences I had while doing them but for some reason, this one is drawing a blank. I remember the sculptures but I can't remember any of my time on the mountain

I shared this snow and ice sculpture just after I made it in 2017 but I wanted to share it again because it is next on my list of sculptures to document. The original post has all that you need to know

I was back in Davos, Switzerland for the 2016 Iglu-Dorf hotel. Back to a project where just two sculptors, Martijn Smits and myself have to design a decorate a whole igloo hotel in just two weeks. There

For those who read my last post, Firstly, thank you and secondly, you will know that I arrived late to this job and had to work fast to get back on schedule. The Iglu Dorf Hotel in Davos was to open on

Before I start talking about this sculpture project I must set the scene. Having just finished my Taj Mahal sculpture in the Netherlands I was supposed to return to Ireland for two days and then journey

I had one final room to make for the 2014 Iglu-Dorf hotel in Davos, Switzerland and it was the suite. It's the most expensive room in the building at around €700 a night and for that, you get a bed made

The Igloo hotel in Davos is really quite massive. Manys a time I find myself lost in its corridors. The whiteness of the snow can be quite disorientating until it is carved onto some sort of form or other.

There was a lot of stuff to be made on this 12 day project. 15 hotel rooms, a bar, 3 restaurants and a suite, all from snow with some ice sculpture thrown in for good measure. While researching for this

It has taken me a while to get this post out. I had to do a lot of retouching of these images to make them in some way usable. Even now, I look at this as a proof of concept and not a finished experience.

She had the idea of recreating the "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos" by Goya (The Sleep of Reason Produces ...

The Ice Hotel opens in phases and the last phase is always the slide. This year's theme for the slide was all about...

I had one last project to do in 2013, finishing up on Christmas eve. It had been a busy year and even though I had gone straight from Kuwait to Catalonia I was still on the road and had a to climb the

I reproduced "The Burning Giraffe" on the main wall. Again, the snow quality wasn't the best. It had rained a lot...

We wanted something a little bit more figurative after doing a lot of abstract bubbles, so we looked at the marketing...

Another decorated wall with a bubble design. The Ice Hotel has a huge bar divided into 3 sections the section I was ...

Second project of the season, hourglass made of ice...

Firstly I would like to thanks everyone who helped make my last post trend. It was really appreciated. It's moments like this that really spur me on to create and continue building my account. Refresher

This will be a two-part post, there is lots to say and lots of images to share. I was first going to cover the project as a whole and then cover the artworks in the second post but, after thinking about

I'm going to head this one off at the pass and say I know that this should actually be a squid and not an Octopus. In the book, it was a giant squid but for 'artistic' reasons we felt an octopus would