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Some habits are hard to break.
It was a day for going back to my roots, putting the fancy stuff to one side and make some wheels, something I haven’t done for a while, this time a set of four little wheels to replace some rotten … Continue reading
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Is it Sculpture or is it Art?
The alternative title is “It looks so big in the workshop”. For those of you who have seen my previous posts you will know that I was invited to exhibit one of my works at the Canary Wharf Winter Lights … Continue reading
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Calling my bluff
As anyone who like me spends a lot of time working with artists will tell you there comes a point when you find yourself saying “I could do that” along with “How difficult can it be” Unfortunatley I may have … Continue reading
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Tagged art, business, copper, design, education, experiment, garden, home, how to, job, office, video, work
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A leopard skin Mirror
I recently made 19 illuminated makeup mirrors with black and gold surrounds for a customer which ended up in the Boots Christmas Advert, and during the course of conversation I was asked if I could make a mirror with a … Continue reading
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Tagged accessories, art, bespoke, business, cosmethic mirror, custom mirror, decor, design, education, experiment, family, home, illuminated mirror, interior design, makeup mirror, mirror, money, office, tv, work
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Support an endangered craft
Another unusual day in my workshop, I wanted to start off by making a joke about how I need to control my apprentice but firstly I don’t have an apprentice and secondly someone would take it out of context and I would … Continue reading
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Tagged accessories, art, business, design, education, fundraising, Gothic, history, home, humour, job, medieval, money, stocks, work
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Its a strange way to earn a Living
Every now and then I get involved in an art project and for the last week I have been lighting a series of seven sculptures by Mark Humphrey which form the Canary Wharf Remembrance Art Trail which opens today and … Continue reading
Wooden Box wins First Prize
As Halloween rapidly approaches I thought I would recount an old story that happened to me a few years ago. My local Authority every year puts on a town show every September and as part of that they have a … Continue reading
Can I charge more if its art?
Every workshop has too have a few steady clients, bread and butter products that keep coming, and one of mine involves the manufacture of Professional Makeup Mirrors which are then sold by http://www.fitzrobbie.co.uk or available to hire through http://www.trafalgarlighting.co.uk . In … Continue reading
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There is nothing like a challenge
There’s nothing like a challenge and my latest project is most definitely one of those. Over the years I have made my fair share of wooden wheels for horse drawn carriages, usually something fairly substantial, with wheels in the region … Continue reading
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Is it a Flower or is it a lamp Post?
Now even by my standards this is an unusual project. I have started work with a lighting designer who has been engaged to light a new sculpture about to be installed in a public park in the near future. The sculpture is based … Continue reading
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