His designs have also featured horror icons such as Pennywise, Freddy Krueger, as well as notorious figures including Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein.
His business typically turns over between £10,000 and £20,000 a year, with each commission taking six to 20 hours to complete.
However, this year, he decided to take on no paid work so he could “have fun” with his designs, carving characters including Michael Myers from Halloween and Uncle Fester from The Addams Family, as well as prominent political figures he finds to be “terrifying”.
The father of two said: “I wanted to practise carving a face and, quite frankly, I found them both – Putin and Trump – terrifying people so I thought: ‘I’m going to stick them on a pumpkin’.”
Jamie’s designs have become increasingly intricate over the years, and his technique involves starting with a stencil of an image or a drawing before using lino cutters and chisels of different sizes to carve varying depths into the pumpkin.

