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Blog 10 Friday another sharp start but well worth it, today I am trying wet process this is where we dip the cleaned copper into we enamel dry it and then fire it, this gives a nice clean finish , […]

Blog 9 Thursday at Higham Hall : Breakfast at 8, in studio by 9 I start with going back to basics and doing some work with enamel , fluxing and counter enameling the copper then sifting and firing the enamel […]

Blog 8 Arrived at Higham hall , this is in Cumbria near Basinthwaite Lake , it’s a fab place, it lovely old hall with residential accommodation and onsite classes, while I was there other courses were water colours and yoga […]

Sketchup offers such a quick way of constructing architectural spaces – a great new tool for me when putting together commission proposals. A scale plan of a space can easily be imported and traced, then converted to a 3D visualisation. […]

The weekend of 27th-29th August, Cheeseburn Sculpture Park opens again with another chance to see ‘En-Lighten: Taxus Baccata’ – a sculpture of steel and dichroic glass suspended in the ancient Yew tree. Amazing reflections and light patterns constantly change during […]

Following the launch of this Arts Council funded project in May 2016, a new installation at Cheeseburn Sculpture Park (‘En-lighten: Taxus baccata’) opens to the public this weekend. Suspended in a Yew tree, this prismatic form transforms the space. Initial […]

Well been back to Edinburgh to do a one to one with Dorothy Cockerell , today we did plaque de jour , I ended up using some pre cast shapes for the task as I mentioned in my last blog […]

The saga of the silver casting for my enamelling on 6th June,  well all not well I have made a right cods ear of the dam thing, all you silversmiths and enamellers out there who do your own silver  work […]

Back on the train to Edinburgh this should have been a two day event but things have been changed slightly today (Saturday) is the silver casting and then on the 6th June we will continue with the enamelling of the […]

I went back to Aarhus this week for a quick 2-day trip, doing children’s workshops, more like ten minute chats with groups of children (I have been amazed and impressed by how many schools and kindergartens have been bringing their […]