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Alice Ridgway is a woodcarver and gilder trained in the classical tradition at City & Guilds Art School, London. 

Inspired by the everyday crafts of vernacular and folk carving, her work celebrates the idiosyncratic marks of wood grain, the human hand and chisel.

Alice also undertakes traditional and contemporary woodcarving commissions, including sculpture, lettering and functional household items. 

The Old Red Lion

Forest of Signs

Architectural Carving

Classical Ornament

Ornamental woodcarving from lime wood.
Traditional oak woodcarving of a still leaf medieval ornament
A hand-carved alphabet of wooden letters inspired by historic fonts and typefaces and the tradition of sign painting.

Experiments in Lettering Design 

Wooden Alphabet

Hand-carved wooden combs made from boxwood inspired by the tradition of Japanese combs.

Functional Objects

BoxwoodCombs

Carving a box wood comb with woodcarving chisels.
Wooden bench lettering inscription at The Garden Museum.
Bench Inscription

Garden Museum x Old Paradise Gardens

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Hand carved wooden box from pine wood.
Wooden Reliquary Box

Hand joinery and carved pine

Hand carved sculptural wooden flames, gilded with traditional water gilding.

Contemporary Gilding

MatchstickFlames

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