Laser Cutting

Here is a selection of my Laser cut work 

Key and Coat Hooks 2016-17

Laser engraved onto recycled pallet wood. I've used a variety of wood from pallets. Hard wood oak & beech engrave well.

The more common softwood I engrave and then hand paint, like the multi coloured houses in Bristol.

This was a commissioned piece over a metre long Chrome Hooks and a shelf over the top.

Harts Bakery Christmas Display 2014

The loose theme was Polar Express

Details of the snowflake blizzard.
Various sized snowflakes in white card and papers built up in layers

Harts Bakery Christmas 2013

Gingerbread Houses, cut in corrugated card and decorated. Held in place with magnets.

Jewellery

I designed this Hare and Swallow, for Alex Maxwell, which is part of her Jewellery Collection

Christmas Decorations & Cards

I began with a basic snowflake design. I have used it in my cards, decorations and the Harts Bakery Displays.

   

( designed and engraved by a friend which I hand coloured)

White card

Original basic shape,
cut in beech wood ply

Different sizes of the same shape

 

 Bat Lampshades

One of my first major designs. Bat design cut into a thin ply and stitched with a leather string.

Coat Hooks

This is a selection of the Laser engraved Coat and Key hooks which I was working on at the beginning of the year. 

I have been using recycled pallet wood. The hard woods engrave well, and then using a simple line and painting the house design on the softwoods.

Oak laser engraved houses

Beech

Soft wood possibly Larch

January 2017

Since the beginning of the year I have made several new hooks for sale. Painted like the houses around Bristol or engraved into hard wood to bring out the details.

This piece was a commission 1.25m long with Chrome hooks and a shelf above the Houses and hooks

   

Nov/ Dec 2016

Things have moved along and I have now made a new set of Coat and Key hooks using my Bristol Houses Designs. Plus using reclaimed Pallet wood which I have sourced and then sanded before laser graving the designs upon it.

The full street! In parts of Bristol the houses are painted in a variety of colours,
 this is my interpretation of their look.

Houses laser engraved on to a piece of recycled Beech Pallet.
The engraving works best on the hard wood.
This wood has quiet thin depth so I thought only suitable for hanging small items, hence my intention was this is for keys.

More hooks for keys this on a piece of Oak Pallet wood

My day job takes at Danbury Motor Caravans means being out of the hours for 11 hours day. It leaves very little time for my own creative work.

Here is the background development for my next idea.....

Laser cut oak Pallet wood

The typical Bristol houses, from my Christmas display at Harts Bakery.

Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol Pop Up Shop

 

 

I am one of the Artists at the new Pop Up, running all summer

Hart's Bakery Christmas Display

Saturday 14th at Harts Bakery I had a Stall selling all my work and Chopping boards and Bird Boxes from Bristol Wood Recycled Project.

It went really well, many compliments for my Ginger Bread houses and Snowflakes, many thanks for eveyones support.

This is my latest work the wall display  for  Hart's Bakery, www.hartsbakery.co.uk

We spent a happy evening decorating the bakery and eating delicious pizza

Ginger Bread Houses cut from cardboard, decorated with perspex sweets and candy canes.The details are chased in white chalk board pen.

Each House is held in place with magnets.

I designed the houses to look like Bristol houses then cut everything by laser at

www.bristoldesignforge.co.uk

 

The paper chains and red paper decorations were made the staff at Harts



part way through the installation

Here are some of the houses as I was working my way through all the cardboard cut outs