A wood sculptor has said he “jumped at the chance” to swap his chainsaw for a bucket and spade to take part in a TV sand-sculpting competition.<\/p>\n
Shane Green, from Otley, is a contestant on BBC Two show Race Against the Tide, which sees teams compete to create sand artwork, before the sea destroys it.<\/p>\n
Known as the Yorkshire Carver, Green’s sculptures can be seen across many public spaces, including RHS Harlow Carr in Harrogate and Roundhay Park in Leeds.<\/p>\n
Green said of switching to sand: “It’s natural and it disappears. I thought there was a lot of beautiful things about it, and that’s what attracted me.”<\/p>\n
Hosted by comedian Iain Stirling, Race Against the Tide was filmed on West Sands Beach in St Andrews, Scotland.<\/p>\n
In the show, a novice to the craft is paired with an expert sand sculptor.<\/p>\n
Green was in a team with Lisa Lindqvist, who he described as a “brilliant teacher”.<\/p>\n
Taking part in the show was “like going back to school, almost”, he said.<\/p>\n
“Mornings were the hardest. You had to get up and build your sand blocks. It was physical work – you were digging wet sand, building them up to 2m-plus.”<\/p>\n
Once the sand blocks were built, they could then start adding detail to their creations, Green said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wood sculptor has said he “jumped at the chance” to swap his chainsaw for a bucket and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-601958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}