Commissions

January 2011
Prizes for 3rd Contra Vision International Wrap Artists Competition
6 "Lucky 8" scultures with inscribed gold leaf text

March 2010
Glass and Jesmonite concrete installation commissioned for the penthouse roof terrace of Hudson Tower looking over the Olympic stadium.

June 2009
Bathroom Window Sculpture. Queen Anne's Gardens, Chiswick.

Nov 2008
Science award trophies commissioned by Brentwood County High School.

Nov 2008
Glass wall partition. The Mill Hill house, Barnes.

July 2007
Bookham United Reformed Church. The Sanctuary window.



Angel

I was approached in summer 2005 by Suzie Dunsmore of Bookham United Reform Church in Surrey who had seen my graduating piece in the RCA 2004 Show catalogue. Suzie wanted a coloured window giving joy and hope to the congregation, something different from traditional stained glass with its literal interpretations.

Initially the design was to be a colour-scape vertically merging from deep red through to deep blue. The 140cm x 53cm sculpture would weigh about 60kg. It was already an ambitious project and was about to get more demanding. I sent an invitation to Suzie to a touring exhibition I was involved in. The invitation had a detail picture of another of my works showing a cross and Suzie asked if I could recreate the effect. With a total redesign I came up with something that could capture the cross of light so symbolic to Christians and satisfy my own interest in nature by producing a spectacular star effect. This would entail further depth, as it would be a truly three-dimensional piece now weighing 90 kilos!

From making the moulds, packing the kiln, firing and polishing there wasn't so much as a chip. Even the installation, raising the huge structure up about nine feet, went without a hitch. Angel, as I had come to call the window, sat comfortably in the church as if it had been there since the church had been built over 100 years before. Its thick yellow back pane and fused deep blue panels bounces light, colour and iridescence with such a vibrancy.

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