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.

Hart's Bakery 'Polar Express' Christmas 2014

I was asked to do the wall display at Hart's Bakery, near to Temple Meads Station, in Bristol.

Laura Hart suggested 'Polar Express' as the theme and I suggested three images based on views from a train window.

Last year I had a couple of months to prepare, this year it was a couple of weeks, and I have a full time job. It's been hard work and I've thoroughly enjoyed it all.

Bristol houses, (recycled from last years display) with fairy lights to add twinkle

Snowy Mountains, as the train heads North

Snow Storm, based on one basic Snowflake

Last years Gingerbread houses right and two house redressed
 to look like Bristol houses with their petty painted fronts

Two rows of houses cut in corrugated card and decorated in
different coloured thin card. typical of Bristol homes.
I offset the colour card to make the houses a little older and not perfect!

Close up of the the Snow Storm.
Most are cut in a thin white corrugated card
 and a few Snow Flakes in Watercolour paper

Layout, at home, for the mountain scene

Pop Up Shop at Windmill City Farm Bristol.

Since the beginning of the Summer I have been one of 18 Artists showing and selling their work at the Windmill City Farm in Bedminster, Bristol.

For the Christmas display I made a Christmas Tree from pallet wood so that it would act as a focus point for everyone's work.

The Christmas Tree in the 'Home Grown' Pop Up Shop

With a hole saw I drilled a 
hole through the centre of 
each piece of wood.
Then cut spacers to build 
gaps between each
 piece of wood.

Preparing the pallet wood,
 sanding each piece.

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