After an intensive weekend applying the last touches and the protective sealer on the figure, I put my sculpture into my car on Tuesday 19th May, and headed down to Muddiford, Broomhill Art Hotel. What a warm welcome with tea […]
Yesterday I had a wonderful day out visiting Broomhill Sculpture Gardens and meeting Rinus and his delightful team at Broomhill Art Hotel. Rinus made some time and showed me around his stunning sculpture gardens and we found a space where […]
A view of my hell kitchen, where life is infused into a future goddess. The work is intense, but I’m happy how the piece for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize is coming along. Adding material and filing back to find […]
Ahhh! I waited a long time for this moment. Against all odds, the sculpture did fit into my car!! And it fits into my studio. Just about! Just enough space to put my hand between the top part of the […]
After discussing the shape of the metal structure and its fixture to the stand on Wednesday, I returned on Friday, 24th April, to Honeyring LTd – CNC Polystyrene. We inserted the metal structure into the Polystyrene form and Nick and […]
A busy week! On Wednesday 23 April I went to see the Welder Steve Bate in Horton Heath, Eastleigh Hants. Pure Bliss! Judge for yourself from the pics below! How often do you get greeted by a curious free roaming […]
A huge thank you to Andrew Hill, director of Notcutt who have agreed to sponsor my piece by providing a large amount of the Jesmonite products, that will cover the core structure (Jesmonite components, quadaxial fibreglass matting, pigments, sealer). W […]
I went to see my sponsor yesterday, CNC Polystyrene, to see how they were getting on with the milling of my sculpture. What do you want first, the good news or the bad news? Good news is, half the figure […]
Finishes. While I’m waiting for my polystyrene to come I think about the next stages. I have chosen the outer material to be Jesmonite, because it is water based and far less toxic then fibreglass. Because I can work it […]
A two months production time, from a project on paper to 230 cm high outside sculpture, is agreeable a very short time. Fortunately, we can make use of modern technology to take a shortcut to the traditional process of creating […]
A huge thank you to Nick and Jeff from CNC Polystyrene, part of Honeyring Ltd., who have kindly agreed to sponsor my piece by helping me with the 3d scan of the model and cutting it on their huge CNC […]
The drawing stage is followed by the model making. Loads. This stage helps to solve formal issues and to understand the technical challenges. It’s easier to solve these on a small scale !
Hello, I’m back. I had to concentrate on another project last week, but which does not mean that the Broomhill project remained idle. A lot of things happened. So lets start from the beginning as I promised to illustrate the […]
About Finding objects Or do objects find us? I am interested in making visible what I sense to be present behind the surface appearance of things, by going past the obvious. Influenced by my upbringing on a farm in Germany […]
A blog giving an inside in the making of a large piece for the Broomhill Sculpture Garden. About finding objects, drawing, model making, material, trials and errors, and hopefully many happy accidents.
