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f:LUX
Introducing f:LUX : Beautifully translucent porcelain light panels that are back-lit with delicate designs carved into the clay to glow creating a gentle ambient light in the room. Ebbing and flowing lines form the Rivulet series. Organic curves and more geometric compositions are carved into the porcelain clay creating designs fitting with my stylised aesthetic. … Read more
Lancing’s Sensory Garden Project
Alongside development of new work in porcelain I have been involved in a lovely project; Lancing Sensory Garden (location on Google map). I’ve been asked to make the signage lettering for the community garden being constructed centrally in Lancing. The garden really does have community at its heart; with local companies being involved and giving skills and materials … Read more
Notes from the workbench
I’m thinking about translucency. Working with porcelain allows me to give a more delicate and even finer feel to my compositional curve sketches. I’m thinking about repetition as well and how I can achieve a look of ebb and flow and of asymmetry in a repeating pattern. Moving from 2-dimensions and working in delicate relief to 3-dimensions and forms … Read more
As the academic year rolls in with the leaves…
As the academic year rolls in, for some, I’m starting my ‘new year’ with some investment in myself… Alongside some yoga to un-crick my poor back, I’m settling into doing more drawing. I’ve dusted off my drawing board for life drawing classes with Karin Hay-White alongside doing the odd bit of Urban Sketching. …I’m struck … Read more
Terracotta Foundation
. Terracotta Foundation _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Terracotta Foundation will support and stimulate the use of terracotta in architecture internationally, in collaboration with architects and industry. . Currently being pressed ready to be fired!….. . Join the discussion on Twitter @missterracotta or contact terracottafoundation@gmail.com
Summer news
It’s been a busy few months… I graduated as Master of Arts in Historic Environment Conservation from Ironbridge, Birmingham University in July. My programme was slightly extended as I took time off for my Churchill Fellowship over the summer last year and returned to publish my report and embark on my dissertation over Christmas and New Year. … Read more
No more Neglect – Medina Baths
A petition has been launched this week to gain support for the Council to put together a Planning Brief to protect the special character and period features of Medina Bath House. The intention is to protect the building from potential demolition and construction of a taller proposed development on the sit. As you can read from … Read more
Love Architecture talk – Architectural Terracotta: The Rise of the Skyscraper
I’d like to invite you to two presentations of my Churchill Fellowship findings; This Friday 15th at 7pm at West Street Loft in Shoreham-by-Sea or The following Sunday 24th at 3pm at Threshold Architecture Hub in Brighton Please see the details below and the Love Architecture website for more info
Spomenik
A bit off subject, I wanted to share with you another interest I have which has become a bit of a project… I’ve been researching old Former Yugoslavian monumnets. Many of them are epic sculptural monuments and memorials and because the Communist cause has long ago dissipated they have been left as ruinous statements of a lost day, their … Read more
