New work exploring the structural properties of glass, contained in and containing narrow wood frames. These pieces are often suspended, and move light and colour around a room, as they rotate on a room’s air movement.
It is irresistible to make furniture as a sculptor, so many materials are available in the studio, and furniture forms lend themselves to being rethought, sometimes with more success than others.
A recent exhibition that was due to open on Valentine’s day set me thinking about love and ways to love. It turns out my thoughts on the matter were not entirely rosy and romantic: ‘it’s complicated’.
Light slices are exercises in colour play, often relating to the changing landscape around where I live: very muted colours in the winter; and stronger, clearer colours in the summer.
How to make sculptures flat unsupported in space? So that lines of wood or stone can draw in the air without hindrance. I tackle this conundrum in several approaches – one is the cantilevered structure, where the sculpture floats away from the base, the mass of one freeing the other.