THE SHOWS ARE UPON US

It’s hard to believe but it’s true, the first show of the year has arrived and I need to deliver the pieces on Monday. Strictly speaking the show starts in May but they have a month long preview of selected work and mine has been selected, great news.

I have spent the last few weeks trying to get everything sorted and ready for what will be a busy summer. The Oxford Artweeks Preview show starts Tuesday at the Jam Factory in Oxford, I have a college exhibition through out June, I will be spending some time at Art in Action with the One Oak Project in July, and then in August I will be showing work at the Celebration of Craftmanship and Design at Cheltenham. Action packed stuff, what with a couple of holidays thrown in.

The Zig Zag Sideboard is finished, Retro Modern arrives!

Due to the problem with the heating in the spray room it was all backing up. The latest piece is now finished and will be going into a show a bit later this year.

A classic sideboard storage piece, in a retro modern style. It fits quite nicely with the Zig Zag shelving in design although finished in maple for a lighter feel. As a show piece this actually explores several ideas I wanted to look at, the main cabinet is maple but the lippings are all walnut, I like the contrast and the different edge continues a theme that a lot of my designs have. I also used the through coloured black board for the end, the sliding doors, and the internal post to give further contrast and to give the piece a strong contemporary feel.

Zig Zag Display Shelving is Finished

I have finally been able to put the finishing touches to the latest pieces. I needed some shelving to replace some rather tired and to be honest cheap shelves we have at home. This of course, was a great opportunity to design a new piece and so I set to work.

As usual with any design I work on I always go back to the basics and the simplest form that is needed. In this case three shelves, this led to the simplicity of three horizontal lines,  to keep this shape and retain the simplicity of the form I have simply joined the lines together to create the basic shape.