WORKING WITH YOU

The creative process starts with consultation and exploration. I visit a proposed site to get a sense of place and design intention.

Based on complexity of the work, its scale and your budget, an engagement fee, (deposit) is determined before concepts are realised to drawings.

Pencil and paper sketches are later developed into full-scale workshop drawings.

Further consultation and refinement of all aspects of the project can be arranged at our South Melbourne studio at any stage in the process.

I enjoy responding to landscape and architecture, a definite style sometimes elusive, as many aspects of design and art history interest me.

From gateways and entrances to furniture and lighting, all commissions are bespoke and have direct connection to the site for which they are intended.

Drawing is a tool, key to communication of a concept.

They enable me to explore and understand form. Conveying the agreed design before I go into the forge.

Final drawings are available upon request and can be signed and framed or mounted on quality foam core or backing board.

(PIC OF GLADSTONE GATE DRAWING FRAMED)

All my work is crafted using traditional tools and techniques, shaped and curved and then brought together through heat and fire. It’s a hand intensive process.

The studio is open to visits to view work at all stages, to offer a deeper understanding of sculpting metal.

Forged or “wrought” iron can be finished with natural patinas or treated and coated with various high-grade coatings.

I incorporate and explore many other materials in my work including stainless steel, copper and glass and enjoy the play of materiality, colour and light.

Engineered to Australian standards.

All work is carried out in our South Melbourne forge and studio.

Our team here carries out all installation works.