Radial 3 series
Radial THREE is a beautiful study in time and motion, capturing 24 frames of animation, and recompositing them back into a single circular whole. Available in three distinct colour variations: kandy black, pearlescent and cyan breaker, and optionally fitted with a Perspex mount laser cut to a circular form, ready to install.
Breather / turquoise aegis
Breather has a super fluid, liquid feel almost as if the whole piece was underwater. Drawn a little while after Eight ball, it has the same basic intention, to create a longer work that has an almost cinematic feel. Something you can walk past, with multiple areas of interest to view as individual components of the larger whole.
Evol
I was working on a series of new experimental techniques around the time I drew Evol, intended to add a certain uncertainty into the drawing process. I wanted to explore the idea of making marks that would appear both more haptic and more accidental. Evol is available in two distinct variations: deep base and hard kandy.
Lino
Lino is intended to evoke some of the amazing studio glass work I've admired over the years, not least the sublime work of Lino Tagliapietra and the way his line work moves so sinuously through his work. Available in two variations: venetian and bronzed, Lino is optionally mounted to Perspex and laser cut to shape, ready to install.
Klint / JDRBNK
The Klint studio is an inspiration to anyone who loves paper folding and modernist design. So of course I couldn’t resist building a series of origami like structures for a new series of works about their history and style. Klint is optionally available mounted to Perspex, cropped into 3 unequal parts to emphasise the horizontal joints of the original model.
Elemental series
There’s an energy embedded in the wave forms that run through much of the work I’ve been making, an energy that is perhaps most pronounced in Elemental, which uses a simple left to right sweeping curve to capture a single wave form traveling across the picture plane. Elemental is available in three variations: white crest, primer and crimson core.
Motorik / TWO
Motorik takes up where the Arpeggi series left off, revisiting the idea of capturing a complex syncopated rhythm as a series of dismantled modular components, laid out on a grid, in a complex scaled arrangement of different pulses, or beats. Motorik is available as a large scale work mounted to Perspex and as an editioned pigment print on cotton rag.
Stellify / TWO
Stellify TWO builds on the first series, but adds a more ‘wild style’ feel to the topography. I’ve never conciously pursued a wild style way of working, but this drawing felt as though it had its own preordained direction for travel, so I went with it. Optionally available mounted to Perspex, Stellify is laser cut into 3 distinct components that appear to float on the wall.
Arpeggi / REZ
Arpeggi seemed like a drawing that would stand up to some overworking, so I made six variants straight off, the three primaries: red, yellow and blue, and three tones: black, white and grey. Produced at two key sizes, and optionally mounted to Perspex and cut into three linear bands, to reinforce the sculptural nature of the drawing within the final pieces.
Halcyon
Halcyon is a study in line, action and depth of field. The work comprises a sequence of curving lines expanded to varying degrees as they travel. The depth of field creates a central focal point for the eye, surrounded by varying levels of diffusion as the line work travels into and out of the picture plane. Halcyon is available in three variations: silver solar, deep pink and cerulean glaze.
Psyche D / EvH
Psyche D is a wildly complex drawing, that free wheeled out of control as it went on. The study maps the idea of the cosmos as a fluid series of coloured components surrounding a becalmed central core, split into two halves, perhaps a kind of yin and yang, with a nod to Lewis Carroll. Optionally available mounted to Perspex and laser cut to shape.
Blast FIRST
With Blast FIRST I wanted to move on from the symmetry of Flow, and create something more explosive, more dynamic, more dramatic, and of course far larger too. The study uses the same sculptural approach as Flow, but reimagined in a far looser assemblage of parts, pivoting around a constricted core, that creates an explosive blast along the horizon line.
Quad
Quad is a sixteen pointed form, generated in four quarters, or quads, each quad comprising four further components. It takes some considerable inspiration from the sublime master works of traditional Islamic geometry. Its completed iterations are a complex blue, yellow and turquoise study, and a far simpler, smaller, monochrome piece on a silver base.
Radial / ONE
Radial / ONE was the first piece I made that takes the idea of creating a sculptural drawing for the wall, and renders it with absolutely no reference to traditional ideas of landscape or place. Fully contained within the circle, the three movements abstract more as they moves away from the central line, in order to make a focal ring that bisects the toroid exactly.
ReVOX
ReVOX loosens up on my original Revolver series, with a new technique that is more fluid, incorporates glazes and transparencies, but also retains the off kilter rotational symmetry that I hope creates some intrigue. ReVOX was produced both as a photographic work and as a monochrome etching, printed with the help of Ros Ford, PRWA, at BV Studios.
Flow / silvered
Drawing Flow was a breakthrough moment for me, it was my first piece that spoke directly to the idea of drawing glass and using translucent glazes, that would in some way capture the excitement of seeing light in motion, playing across and through the surfaces. The idea of trying to catch some of that light, colour and drama in a static piece for the wall has been something I’ve been trying to achieve ever since.
