View from my home and time for a cuppa!

Then I see it: a perfect stop-over space. It’s halfway up the hill and positioned in a little clearing which gives me a view (out of the back of my van) of the setting sun over the sea to the west. The town of Pietrsanta lays below me and beyond that, the sea.

The light now is a beautiful soft glow and I decide to stay here for tonight and see how it feels in the morning. To my left is a small wooded area belonging to a shabby run-down house which itself is empty and to my right across the road and up a bit is a new build which is not quite finished, so empty too. I think I might have found my space.

This is my first day and I drive down to the studio to unload and ask Marco if I can stay in the grounds of the studio. He greets me and helps me unload, then says I can leave the van there today but not again as they have to move huge blocks of marble around and it would be in the way. Ah well you have to ask, don’t you?

I meet the guys who I’ll be working alongside and they are Marco, the master, his brother Nicolla, a master and Mori the senior master (in his 70s) Francesco and Fabio the young masters. I call each one of these men masters as it becomes plain to see they each have an immense skill with marble and Mori is astounding to watch working.