Grieving angel

Angel statue with her head down

This unusual memorial was placed at the foot of a family grave in a remote Welsh churchyard and because of its unusual form it required a faculty (special permission). Iain"s father commissioned it ten years after Iain died tragically of meningitus: sometimes it can take a long time for the time to be right. I carved the boulder from a block of Red Wildernness Sandstone from the Forest of Dean, a long way from north Wales, so it became like an erratic boulder. In geology an erratic…