After 20 months in Birmingham working on the restoration of the Town Hall with Croydon-based specialists Stonewest, stone carver Andrew Swinley is back in his workshop near Chichester, West Sussex, where one of his first commissions was a pair of Portland limestone gate piers for a client in Virginia, USA. They are 750mm high and 600mm in diameter and depict an oak tree growing out of a crown. They are carved in a Jacobean style as replacements for carvings blown down in a hurricane. Andrew says he has worked for the client a number of times over the past 10 years, carving a coat of arms for him and sculptures of his triplet grandchildren as babies, his Boston terrier dog and a turkey. Adrew has been working for Stonewest again lately, this time at King\'s Cross railway station in London, but is accepting commissions. He can be contacted on Tel: 01243 544133 or via his website.