THE STONE CIRCLE GALLERY

Here is a selection of stone circles – all of them created by me.  Click on an image if you’d like to know more about it.

Obviously, none of the sculptures shown here are for sale, but I happily undertake commissions to create stone circles small and large.

This is a close-up colour photo of a standing stone in a green grass field. It is clearly part of an arrangement of stones because there are two other standing stones behind it and to its left. Between the stones are some quite tall buttercups and daisies. The distant boundary of the field is formed by a green hedge separating it from another green field behind. Beyond the second field is a stand of trees in leaf which look like oak trees. The sky is blue, made hazy by some very high, very fine thin white cloud, covering most of the sky.

Three stones from the Circle.

Each has its own personality.

This is a colour photo of a standing stone. There is a second standing stone behind it, a few metres away. The stones seem to be standing in a green grass field, but between them are buttercups and daisies which are perhaps 800mm high. In the background is a wooden post and rail fence and on the left a tree in full green leaf. There are low green hills on the horizon and the sky is blue, but has very high thin cloud covering almost all of it. The stones are in quite bright sunshine however and the shadow of the closest one is quite dark.
The Sussex Stones with wildflowers in the centre of the circle
The Sussex Stones with wildflowers in the centre of the circle

The stones here echo a lowering sky.  Each weighs between 3 and 4 tonnes.

Photography by Martin Walls.

Stone Circle looking North
This colour photo shows six standing stones in a field of green grass which is overrun with buttercups and daisies. There is bright sunshine. Behind the stones, in the middle distance, is a wooden post and rail fence and beyond that a flat green field. The far side of the far field has a row of mature trees in full leaf. They seem to be mostly oak. There is a low building in the distance behind the leftmost stones. The sky is blue with some very high thin white cloud and one or two fluffy white good-weather clouds that are lower.

The site had all the topsoil removed in preparation for the arrival of the stones.  Fresh topsoil was imported and then wildflower turf supplied, laid and installed by the same company who designed and placed the wildflower gardens at the Olympic Park in London for 2012.

This is a colour photo of some standing stones in a field. The tallest stones are about 1.8m high and some form a curve, away from us and from left to right. The nearest stone is a pal grey, but the others seem to be slightly yellower. There are four forming the curve and two others apparently near the centre of the curve. The stones seem to be placed in a close-cut green grass field, but the inner grass between the stones has been allowed to grow and is full of quite tall buttercups and daisies. The boudary of the field has a wooden post-and-rail fence and several oak trees, about 20 years old. The sky is blue and there are some fluffy white good weather clouds.

STANDING STONES

by Neil Lawson Baker

Massive expanses of granite

Hewn from the depths of our planet

Titanic stones; all shapes, all tones

Tumuli Tombs Bronze age bones

The magical moon Callanish and Scone

Worship, King making, Prayers at noon

A henge of Welsh blue worship the sun

Druids from dawn ‘til their dusk is won

Mystery world, prehistoric stone row

Energies within just grow and grow

Experience silence contemplate stars

The planets Jupiter, Venus and Mars

Astrological professors explain the alliance

Ancient temples offer compliance

Megaliths aligned for Bronze Age religion

The rising point of Capella in perfect position

Petrified giants stand fast over centuries

Still homo sapiens records scientific entries

This is a colour photo of Neil, sitting on a low stone wall in front of a large, single-storey barn. The barn seems to be old - maybe 100 years old or more. It is of timber construction, with long, thin vertical boards painted in a terracotta colour. We can only see a section of the barn. On the far right is the closed left half of a solid, double barn-door entrance with long, horizontal metal hinges on the outside. The door seems to be unpainted and untreated, but weathered pine in a mid-grey colour. To the left of the dors is a large octagonal roof, about 3 m high. Underneath a curious inverted cone-shaped timber frame that may have been part of a mill but looks as if it no longer functions. Between the camera and the wall of the barn is a distance of about 15m covered in a green grass lawn. In the front half of the lawn closest to us and in front of the strange timber construction is a modern day replica of an ancient stone circle. It consists of eight stones on the circumference and three stones in the middle. The stones are roughly 150mm tall and 100mm x 100mm in section. They are all a grey granite and show no sign of having been worked. Neil is sitting on the wall to the left of the stone circle. Behind him on the grass is a green-painted wooden bench and above his head is a double casement, four-paned wooden window painted white in a black-painted frame. To its left is a matching single window and frame.
This is a colour photo of a large, single-storey barn. The barn seems to be old - maybe 100 years old. It is of timber construction, with long, thin vertical boards painted in a terracotta colour. We can only see a section of the barn. On the far right is part of a wooden white-painted casement window with a green shrub in front of it and below it. To the left of that are large, double barn doors with long metal hinges on the outside. The doors seem to be unpainted and intreated, but weathered pine in a mid-grey colour. Above the doors, mounted to the wall is a circular white outdoor light. To the left of the dors is a large timber construction that may have been part of a mill but looks as if it no longer functions. Between the camera and the wall of the barn is a distance of about 15m covered in a green grass lawn. Almost filling the lawn is a modern day replica of an ancient stone circle. It consists of eight stones on the circumference and three stones in the middle. The stones are roughly 150mm tall and 100mm x 100mm in section. They are all a grey granite and show no sign of having been worked.
This black & white photo is taken at ground level. It shows six standing stones in a field. The stones seem to form a cluster. The grass in the field has been cut short outside the cluster, but left uncut in the centre of the cluster. There is a very heavy, atmospheric sky, full of clouds of strongly contrasting whites and greys. The tree-lined horizon is just visible behind most of the stones, but the left most ones have oak trees in full leaf close by behind them.
This is a colour photo of standing stones. The stones are a dark grey colour - probably granite and are standing on a grass bank. The other side of the bank is a wide, empty, large, pale, sandy beach which seemes to be the head of an inlet. The calm sea is visible to the right of the stones and behind the right-hand stones. Behind the beach is grass covered land in the distance and low mountains beyond. It is a bright, sunny day. The sun is infront of us but high and out of shot. The sky is a pale, watery blue and there are quite a few fair weather white clouds.
Moon rising over the Stone Circle

I would be happy to undertake a commission to build your own stone circle if you would like me to.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch.  Click here for contact details.

To find out more about The Sussex Stones, click here.

If you would like to know more about Stone Circles in general, click here for the Wikipedia entry.

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