Commission Complete!!

My commission of 3 super-colourful Jumbrella poles for a private garden in Kent is now complete, and ready to be packaged and shipped! I managed to photograph it today just before the rains came, enjoy:

 The wood sections at the bottom will be underground once they are sited.

 The poles are so long that it was best to photograph them outside!

Weird Bit Of A Bench...

Whilst out photographing my Blooming 'eck Table a few weeks ago I came across this left over section of bench, just up from the sea, under a strange alcove area. I guess it would still function as a place to gently park your bottom, but it might not be too comfortable. I love the way that things like this just get left, i.e. the Council don't take them away! It is only a really rough nod to what it used to be, in the same sort of sense as most driftwood pieces I find; the odd attachment, screw, additional bit of wood, small bit of text.

East London Graffiti Pictures...

Whilst in East London this week I came across these 3 interesting bits of graffiti on the same road, all quite different. I'm not sure what the phrase actually means but I like it and the simplicity of its execution! The patterning and character of the first piece is also really interesting:

Multisensory Exhibition, Venice......

 Multisensory, L'Arredamento, Pordenone, Venice

 7th October - 7th November

I got emailed some sneak preview pictures of the show that I currently feature in, which is just outside Venice. Although they're only of the outside of the exhibition I still found them exciting!! So here they are....

Remind anyone of the "Hollywood" sign?!

Finally, New Pieces....

For those of you who couldn't make Origin, and therefore didn't get a chance to see my most recent pieces, here they are unveiled!:

One Little Lie, 2011, pieces of found beach plastic and glass, painted frame, 56 x 56 x 5cm

Close up of One Little Lie

 Blooming 'eck Table, 2011, second hand table, matt gloss, varnish and 

stranded cotton, 97 x 47 x 43cm

Boom Bang Storage Stool, 2011, second hand stool, matt gloss,

varnish and stranded cotton, 43 x 36 x 30cm

I hope that you like them!

Commission update.....

Today I finished wrapping the first pole of my Kent-garden commission (hurrah!), and here it it is in a cut and shut style photograph:

The photograph had to be taken on my stairs as the pole is so long that it won't stand up-right anywhere else! The pole is 3.6m long, with a 2.74m (9ft) section wrapped, so it's pretty damn large. Indeed, I had to move my bedroom around to wrap it. Thankfully it managed to fit in perfectly and I wrapped it without too much bother. I forgot how vibrant and lovely the plastic lancing is once wrapped around the wood; so pretty! I feel like I have the technique far more perfected now; it's nice to finally know what I'm doing.

Only two more left to go.....

Handy trick......

I have recently been working on another new piece for my Origin stand. It's a bit of a secret until Origin is over (and then I will post pictures), but it involved drilling probably more than a thousand holes with a hand-held drill, as opposed to the much easier to use pillar drill! As you can imagine this required quite a lot of arm-power (the drill surface was quite thick) and to save on my thumb muscles/ chaffing I came up with a handy trick on my second day of drilling:

A couple of rounds of masking tape holding the "power" button down really did save me a lot of thumb-pain! It did make the drill go extremely hot but it saved me holding down the button myself for nine hours! Why didn't I think of this earlier?!!

A Bank Holiday Monday in Brighton town...

Here is a photo taken on the August bank holiday weekend. It was quite quiet and calm on the seafront (it's usually manic and rammed with people!) and there was a really nice relaxed atmosphere. I took this photo whilst the men and women were packing up their amusements at the end of the day; I love the carousel and the way it's glow casts over the sand:

Funky wall....

On my way back to the tube after dropping work off at flow I came across this rather interesting curved wall. I assume that it is this way because of the growth of the tree pulling it upwards, but perhaps the wall had to be laid this way due to the tree pushing up the land, or perhaps it is a mis-match of the two, some sections of it certainly do look like a patched-up jigsaw! Who knows, but I think it's quite unusual:

"On Repeat" at flow, Notting Hill....

The two "Simple Shape" pieces for flow are officially finished! Hoorah! They took a lot longer than I thought they would do! The show runs from 8th September until 5th November so get yourselves down to flow if you are in or around Notting Hill, please!

I don't have any pictures as I wanted to wait until they are properly displayed (and curved) in the exhibition before taking any photographs as they don't look half as good flat!! But here is a picture of the screws that affix the piece of work to the hidden brackets, post-glossing (not as exciting I know!):

This is the best way I have found of holding screws in place (up-right!) whilst glossing them, and it works a treat!

I will post photographs of the pieces in the exhibition once I have visited! Watch this space!