Working Process
Glass
i: I Work primarily with kiln formed glass specialising in lost wax casting and pate de verre.
My starting point is my collection of reclaimed old portrait photographs. Selecting facial
references I feel I can use, I produce drawings from which I exude a particular expressive
quality before I begin modelling in clay. These studies are further developed in wax before
casting in glass.
ii: Working with a series of moulds I take impressions from garments I have made or collected.
They are replicated in glass using a process called pate de verre (glass paste) this allows me
to control my colour application and cast very fine pieces of glass.
Glass
i: I Work primarily with kiln formed glass specialising in lost wax casting and pate de verre.
My starting point is my collection of reclaimed old portrait photographs. Selecting facial
references I feel I can use, I produce drawings from which I exude a particular expressive
quality before I begin modelling in clay. These studies are further developed in wax before
casting in glass.
ii: Working with a series of moulds I take impressions from garments I have made or collected.
They are replicated in glass using a process called pate de verre (glass paste) this allows me
to control my colour application and cast very fine pieces of glass.
working stages:clay;wax;assembled wax
Metal: Bronze casting using ceramic shell.
*images below show the various stages of the ceramic shell process taken during my all too brief
residency period at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop 2011.
Kids from the Jersey gang at the very early stages of metal-chasing.
