You Like Me... You Really Like Me!

Thank you to everyone and your wonderful compliments. I really am extremely chuffed. I feel blessed to have found a career path that provides me with so much satisfaction and the fact other people get enjoyment out of my work too leaves me feeling completely ecstatic!

Here are the images (once again taken by Terence Bogue) of the brooches from Intervention. They are all made from old biscuit, tea and toffee tins tabbed onto a base of copper. See here for an image of the back of one of the brooches.

The Boys from Ponderosa Ranch

Snappy and Sly

Beth and Pip

The Hunter and His Hound

Winkin Blinkin and Nod

fresh photos

Just been to visit Terence Bogue again. These pieces are from Intervention and were displayed in the alcove inside the gallery.

Merry Merry Queen

This is from an old Plaistowe tin lid and is about 110mm diameter. She's wearing a nice crown and a very fetching pair of slippers. It has been purchased by the lovely Katherine Bowman.

Absent II

This is a better photo than my effort. I'm not sure what the tin originally held but the image is of Captain Cook and his party planting the flag.

Gum Country

This tin tray is about 450 x 320mm. The bird is from a Plaistowe 'Birds of Western Australia' tin and the explorers and ship are from a tea tin - Bushells, I think. Detail below.

On display at e.g.etal

sneak peek

Here's a sneak peak of the work for Intervention which will be installed tomorrow. It's being beautifully modelled by the knitter extraordinaire, Brigette Cameron.

Here's a view of the back for those that are interested in that sort of thing. The frames are made from Copper, the images are cut from old tea, biscuit and chocolate tins and tabbed to the frame. The fitting is made from cutting and folding tabs from the frame. I wanted to use copper so that I could blacken them (silver too cost prohibitive) so I had to avoid soldering to maintain hardness.

And, here's the invite