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Main: Detail of
Chiaroscuro, 2019,
360mm dia x 20mm, pin
oak, oregon.
1–5. Showing the
process of creating
the segments for
Shard 2.- Shard 2, 2017, 900
h x 170 w x 45mm
deep, red ironbark,
ash, oregon.
All about the journey
Visual analysis is a key to working out what appeals
to my aesthetics. It enables me to work out whether a
combination of colours works or whether a particular
texture works with that colour. The journey of creative
evolution is never-ending; hence I tend to work in cycles.
I get an idea, work through several pieces, move onto
something else and then another distraction pops up.
Eventually something sparks my mind again and I return
to further exploration of a previous idea.
The unfortunate aspect of this is that some pieces take
months even years to reach a conclusion; however the
journey undergone creates even more possibilities. You
can now see why my mind goes off on tangents.
I now think that I suffer from a creative form of
attention deficit disorder!
Planned or unexpected
It could be said that there are two main ways that my
work develops, planned or unexpected, and at times the
two overlap. My Shard series was the result of a mistake.
A bowl with a base way too thin to be acceptable was too
good to throw away – I hate to waste anything, especially
wood and time. Put aside for some time, a moment of
inspiration arrived when I realised that a three sided shape
explored in other pieces could be adapted to the bowl and
open up a new direction.