Headboard in Walnut Frame
Headboard Panel made of scagliola – the Italian craft of manipulating plaster for mock marble architectural inlays.
Recent Work
Panels in Tambour Cupboard
I made these scagliola panels in situ for a curved cupboard area fitting underneath a mezzanine in our main living room. I designed the sliding slatted doors to hide the fridge on the kitchen side and for music gear to sit into a niche lined …
For Nabil
This piece of scagliola was designed to hang without a frame, directly on the wall in Nabil’s new elegant flat.
Gouache Studies
These gouache paintings started as quick preparatory designs for scagliola tiles and panels, although in practice, when made into scagliola pieces, the surface patterns differ wildly from the original sketches. The process of manipulating the pigmented plaster mix is intentionally loose, uncontrolled and open-ended. Tacit …
For Gesine and Carlos
This was made to celebrate the wedding of Gesine and Carlos in Pachuca, Mexico – a city in Hidalgo state known for its mining and Cornish influenced ‘pastes’.
For Simone and James
Scagliola panel made for friends in Berlin incorporating a fragment of the Berlin wall. It is framed with an open back so that both sides are visible and can also be hung with the reverse on show.
For Jessica and Jeremy
Made for Jessica and Jeremy with Cotswolds stone embedded. Colour direction taken from the quaint paintwork in their local train station.
Marbled Paper
Gouache on various uncoated paper types, marbled using size made from carragheen moss (a seaweed found off the west coast of Ireland).
Headboard in Walnut Frame
Headboard Panel made of scagliola – the Italian craft of manipulating plaster for mock marble architectural inlays.