Process
A lot of work goes on behind the scenes in the making of my sculptural pieces and for me this is a very important part of my making and design process. This page i hope will give a little insight into some of the techniques i employ.
A lot of work goes on behind the scenes in the making of my sculptural pieces and for me this is a very important part of my making and design process. This page i hope will give a little insight into some of the techniques i employ.
i. Metal work process
Emerging Artist in Residence (2011) SSW Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden Aberdeenshire
bronze casting process. The steps here sho my initial clay and wax models;ceramic shell process and lost wax burnout; casting (bronze pour); de-moulding and clean up.
**The last image shows my very first bronze cast pieces which i made as an evening class student at ECA and which got me hooked!! The rest they say is history :)
ii. Glass making process
The first image shows the cold workshop at Northlands Creative, my experiments in pate de verre began back in 2006 on the Gulbenkian residency and i have been hooked on the process ever since.
Additional images show the pasting up of my refractory moulds; cleaning up of the fired pieces; series of steps from lino carved blocks to assembled wax prototypes which would become cast, pate deverre works.
