Garden of Stone

Royden Card

Garden of Stone is taken from an area in the Devils Garden of Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. Devils Garden features rock fins and arches formed by erosion. President Herbert Hoover signed an executive order on 12 April 1929 that created Arches National Monument.

Working with sketches drawn on location and the occassional reference photo, Royden Card creates a series of drawings with ink and brush to work out a final design. He then reverses the final drawing and tranfers it to the block (preferably cherry), and will then spend up to 80 hours carving, making slight changes as he goes along.