About
“Hi Sarah, received the lamp yesterday. It looks great, really pleased with it. More of a work of art than a functioning piece of furniture, but even better that it’s both!”
Karen Kennedy, Cumbria
My lamps are both turned and painted on my old UNION JUBILEE Lathe, each is made individually to a unique finish in small batches.
Shapes and colours change and evolve through an active search for a harmonious balance between the lamps form and it’s painted decoration, fed by my observations and preoccupations with the world around me, and my interest in art, craft, design and fashion. The lamps range from colourful polychrome stripes and finest handpainted lines to monochrome, minimal and tonal finishes. Though designs are repeated many times, each lamp will ultimately be unique in (it’s) form and colour.
I would say I’m loosely following some of the values of the arts and crafts movement, my practice is informed by my formal fine art training whose lessons will forever be within me and a desire to produce something both beautiful and useful with the capacity to enhance and transform a domestic environment for the better.
Portrait by Alun Callender
I find inspiration in the work of artists particularly Barbara Hepworth in relation to the finish I pursue on my wooden lamps, also from nature, fashion and quite often from film, plenty of inspiration can be sparked through lamp spotting in film and media.
Films offer a never ending parade of vintage and design classics, they have an important role in lighting and dressing most sets so I recommend you start lamp spotting yourself, it also gives you a clue as to how they make our homes look great too!
Materials
My decorative wooden lighting and woodturnings are produced entirely by myself in my workshop studiospace in central Brighton, U.K.
I can often make use of waste timber from furniture making and this timber is often European oak walnut and cherry in addition I source Lime wood (which is unsuitable for furniture and traditionally used for carving). This is the main wood I use for my densely painted products it has a fine grain making it suitable for sophisticated and fine turning presenting a perfect surface for painting.
I paint with artists quality acrylic paints and finish with a natural wax.
All lamps are wired with decorative fabric covered twisted flex and fitted with either a safer switched lampholder or with a plain lampholder and an inline switch, supplied with a plug for use in the UK they can be adapted for other countries please contact me directly for more information. The lamps conform to BS EN 60598-2-4 and have been assessed as meeting this standard by the Lighting Association.
