'I've been carving pumpkins for 15 years - here's how to do it like a pro'

"I've always loved art. Even as a kid, I was always drawing and making stuff out of plasticine. I went on to study model making in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT)."

"I carved my first pumpkin 15 years ago. My girlfriend Kate, now wife, moved to London for work in 2009 and I joined her."

"I remember watching a TV segment that was on after the news. They were asking viewers to send in pictures of pumpkins they had carved, and I had just carved my first one the night before."

"Nowadays, I do painting and installations for festivals alongside my day-to-day work in the Registry of Deeds."

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