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Incognito self portraits
I have alway tried not to have my photo on the internet, and so have over the years experimented with various styles of illustration for my ‘profile’ image which is often required when you register to a site. It is also fun to do.
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Nasa logo redux
If the famous NASA ‘worm’ logo was ever to be brought back, maybe it could be revived in the form on this space shuttle concept, the Polymorph space shuttle design by Luigi Colani.
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney
Who has an an orange football in their bath room? David Hockney.
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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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Stephen Willats , how tomorrow looks from then…
I saw these photo collages at the Tate modern ages ago and didn’t know what to make of them. Really struck me they were using the visual language of service design. But was very struck by their combination of messaging, diagrammatic structure and provocative text. I have spent a while looking around the internet and…
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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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Modular plywood bookcase
Following the platform bed, I wanted to explore building a modular bookcase system. It is designed to fill an entire wall 3600mm wide and 2400mm high in my house. Again its CNC cut plywood that I drew out in Illustrator and had cut out of 18mm birch plywood.
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Alice in Wonderland school play scenery
St Judes Year Six always puts on an end of year play. It’s a perfect way to celebrate the student finishing primary school, and makes a break from SATs. This year it was a musical Alice in Wonderland. My daughter volunteered me to help out with the scenery.
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CNC plywood Platform bed
I wanted to make a platform bed to sit in the roof space of my daughters bedroom. The ceiling slope follows the profile of the valley roof, so there is just room to put a platform in. I also wanted to experiment with CNC router cut plywood and cantilevered wall supports.
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