Making
Creating things for friends and family
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Zen and the art of watercolour painting at Casale Monticchio
Painting the swimming pool at Casale Monticchio to relax whilst on holiday
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Swimming pool paintings at the Hotel Aequa
For our family summer holiday we stayed at the Hotel Aequa and I relaxed by making watercolour paintings in my sketchbook.
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Another self portrait
Becoming a bit of a thing, updating my linkedin image when I finish a gig. Following lock down isolation its now all about a beard and long hair, and binge watching Tron Uprising on Disney+.
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Making scenery for the Lion King at St Jude’s
Creating a backdrop and scenery for the St Judes school play.
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Hagoromo home office
For my fiftieth birthday, I requested some of the legendary Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, I had seen a CNN documentary about it and got a bit obsessed. The Chalk of Champions. Also who knew mathematicians are so obsessed with chalk?
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Wire Frame shelves
For many years I have wanted to create a lightweight modular bookcase. Having researched lots of different approaches, I settled on a simple design, of 10mm bent wire frames to support 18mm birch plywood shelves. The idea being to line a bedroom wall with shelves to hold momentos and knick knacks and possibly a few…
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Curly cadmium planter
Experimenting with decorative wall planters I made one covered in twisted curly clay tendrils. The curls are glazed with warm cadmium yellows, oranges and reds. Its planted with the snake plant, or mother-in-laws tongue, Sansevieria trifasciata. Made it to go outside my youngest daughter’s room.
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Andrew and Hugue
A portrait of my friends Andrew and Hugue who run an amazing holiday let at Casale Monticchio in Umbria. I was thinking about figurative British painting in the sixties and seventies, and had got them to pose in the style of the American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) from 1968 by David Hockney.
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Basketballs on walls
I had the idea that you could take a mould from a basket ball and use it to make indoor ceramic wall planters.
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Flower Vase
When I started my pottery course at Parade Mews Pottery in Tulse Hill, I was determined not to make any pots. But you end up making vessels of one sort or another as thats whats pottery is about. This was the first big piece I made and is inspired by Eduardo Chillida.
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