Dame Barbara Hepworth
Tides, 1946
© Bowness, Hepworth Estate
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Soap Carving
November 2006, Tate St Ives
We were thinking about Barbara Hepworth’s carvings
and how her shapes seemed to grow and look very natural.
Using just cheap bars of white soap and clay-working tools, families
used lolly sticks, teaspoons and potato peelers to create their
own soap carvings.
It got quite messy but it was good clean fun!
Top tips!
- Sketch a simple shape onto the broadside of a bar of soap
and mirror it onto the back too.
- Make sure to keep turning the soap over and over so that
the finished sculpture is rounded rather than flat.
- You can use lolly sticks, teaspoons or potato peelers (with
care!) to scrape away at the edges or twist onto the surface
to make holes.
- Take your time and remember that once you’ve carved
something off – it can’t be put back on again!
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