Brilliant Welsh Based Stone Artist.

Last New Year I was at a party at the home of some good friends. There was a powerful stone object drawing my attention and respect on the table in the middle of the room. I kept picking it up and spent half the night with it in my hands rolling it over and soaking in whatever it was that it so clearly exuded. As smooth and cold and dark and heavy as the unreachable depths of some mid ocean trench "...where nothing stirs on the wrecked hulls of boats both ancient and new...".

Okay so I'd had a few! And I'd forgotten how I love the cool tactile depths of stone sculpture. This piece though was very alluring and had a peculiar timeless feel to it. Not as in 'a timeless classic' as they say, but as in you can't place its origin at any particular period. It's like Dali was there when they made the Easter Island heads and managed to fluidly morph one in some ancient furnace. It looks at you with that kind of timeless, enigmatic gaze that feels like it could change when you look away; like some mysterious object in a Roald Dahl story. In fact its gaze does change depending on the angle you look at it... one of the great talents of the man who carved it.

Anyway, New Year passed as a good New Year should until it was 7am and there was just me and a chap I'd met that night called Bill as the 'last men standing', sleeping bodies all around us, yacking away famously, and yet again I'm picking up the head and drinking in its icy weight, rubbing it and turning it, and generally just subconsciously fixating on it when all of a sudden......

Nothing supernatural!... but it turns out that 'Bill' - the only other soul awake - is Matthew Billington the sublimely talented stone carver who created the piece. I was then formally introduced to "Say Ahh". I'd been dreaming of setting up Art In Parcel to allow gifted artists to sell direct to people that love their work without having to involve them in the business side of things. Bill had been searching and searching for some way of getting his work out there.

Art In Parcel was born. You can see and buy Matthew Billington's work here...!