Now my sculpture is installed at Broomhill Sculpture Gardens in North Devon I thought I would post a slide show synopsis for my journey since March. Its been a joy to work on this project, having the luxury of indulging my ideas and passion for materials, catching up with old friends and making some new…
I have had a great few days in North Devon installing my sculpture at Broomhill and we managed to get both parts of the sculpture upright and leveled by the end of Monday. On Tuesday it was a matter of bolting them down, refilling the hole in the ground with a mixture of gravel and…
It’s been a really great day starting with a great view followed by a fab breakfast and perfect weather. It has to be the most civilised sculpture installation I have ever done ! Although the picture looks a bit like a bomb site it’s all part of the process. This bit always gets a bit…
After many weeks working in my shed/workshop/studio the day finally came to pack up and ship out to North Devon. This process is always a little intense because of all the things to remember. It’s a bit like when you go abroad and you have to check you bag every 4 minutes for your passport…
Yesterday I switched off the machines for a while to shape the lower ends of the work to fit the foundation steel work as seen in my last post. It’s a welcome relief from the various power tools I am using to acquire the finished surfaces. It gets a little claustrophobic…
Before I got into the dusty old business of sanding this work I couldn’t resist having a preview of the light coming through the piece.Lifting and turning this lump is no mean feat on my own and required some leverage and a spot of lateral thinking. However, it’s amazing…
Yesterday I completed my drilling, cutting and hammering marathon , during which my eight year old son came in and said ‘ its like wack-a-mole ! , wouldn’t it be good if they kept on popping back up ?’ Ummm? No ! I have now embarked on the finishing processes which includes shaping the…
Over the past week I have been steadily working my way through the task of drilling the 2500 holes, cutting the acrylic and hammering it into the wood. It sounds simple, but in fact the process is made tricky, as I am trying to preserve the surface quality of the…
…well actually I have several, and I have tried them all for the task of banging the acrylic rods into the wood. None of them were up to the task because they either shattered the plastic or damaged themselves on the acrylic. I went to the hardware store to get a new drill bit and…
This week I have been spending some time ‘Getting to Know’ my new piece of timber. There is always a few days with a new project transferring all the ideas and concepts from my mind into the real thing. I can do a certain amount through tests and models but there are often elements of…
A huge tube arrived in the post today containing the acrylic rods for the sculpture, this was a very exciting moment ! They are currently two meters long and will need to be cut down to 80mm lengths , all 2500 of them ! This next stage of construction is a series of repetitions, somewhat…
The sun has been somewhat absent over the last week, which made the luminescence of things today that much more special. I captured several moments today that exemplify why light (especially natural) is so pivotal to my practice, and I thought I would share them with you. A beautiful, luminescent rainbow of balloons filled with…
A big day today ! The Oak slabs for the sculpture arrived and are now sitting in my studio waiting for the next stage. This signals the transition from two dimensions working on paper to three dimensional. I always get a mixed feeling at this stage of a…
“Can we count them Daddy !?” was the response from the kids when they came home from school and saw what I had been up to. This was a stroke of luck as I had forgotten this part of my task today. Starting at each each end they worked towards the middle and they even…
Investing a bit of time working on the scale and composition at this stage with cheap materials saves me a great deal of time and effort later. Handling paint and paper is much easier than a hundred or so Kilos of Oak! Taking risks with the idea is all part of the process for me,…
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