Metalworking

Wenge wood with brass rods and decorative elements, blue resin with gold highlights.

A lighthearted hat badge. Formed from copper and heat treated, with brazed nickel silver paw prints. 

Napkin rings made in country kitchen style from copper, brass and silver. A gift for a friend. 

A bas-relief made from nickel-silver alloy plate cut and beaten into shape. Set on a slate placemat, 32cm diameter, wall mounted.  Nickel silver  gradually tarnishes outdoors to a duller yellow. Repolished evey 1-2 years. 

A. This sculpture is a case study in biting off more than you can chew. I didn’t really invest enough time in design and so it basically evolved as I built it. 

It started as a giant woodlice, but I got bored with that idea and veered a bit towards dinosaur-crab-trilobite. 

I made, rejected and rebuilt the tail. It then looked unbalanced so I added some giant claws.

 The copper is basically an exoskeleton, nailed and formed onto a cedar wood form with steel legs and reinforcing. Annealing the 0.8 mm copper sheet to aid forming it also generated the variegated brown-red colouration.

The eyes are black enamel on copper, baked in our enamel oven. 

The final item is 1.5m long, 60 kg+ and covered with sharp metal spikes – ideal for small children. Now sitting in our garden.

This is an accidental sculpture. I was trying to make a tail for the bug sculpture, but it didn't match. So I added fins and a head with enamel eyes. Made from gas torch treated 0.8mm copper sheet. 1.5m long , wall mounted.

A test piece in hammered and welded steel. Given to a neighbour's 6 year old boy.

A really solid one-off in bronze. Made in 1998 in London using the lost wax casting method. 46cm long, several kg.

Michelle made a chess set for her brother who is a great chess player.  Key was to make identifiable and identical pieces for each team but also define which team they are on.

It is made from old abandoned plumbing and clock parts.  Team A is highly polished and team B is not polished and has patinated blue elements.

There are endless opportunities for turning old hardware into art.

 All of the cutlery for this peice was bought at the local recycling non-profit or at local "vide greniers".