Plaques - Commemorating and celebrating work life in three different materials.

CAST IRON

Andrew Whittle:  This is attached to a boulder in the University of Bristol Botanic Garden. Mark Smith was a professor there and they were very keen to use the boulder which was totally unsuitable for lettering, hence the attached cast iron plaque. The leaf has several layers of meaning here: it is appropriate for his work, I am also using it as the hedera was originally used i.e. as a word separator, but also a line filler (shades of printed work) and this leaf version — not really an ivy (hedera) leaf is my signature.

WOOD

Anna Louise Parker: This panel forms part of a whole wall of oak panelling in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Clapham. Carved into the panels are memorials to significant members of the church. I think the oldest dedication I noticed was 1914. I tried to be true to the design of the oldest ones. I carved five dedications in total, and really enjoyed the job.

STONE

Alyosha Moeran: This piece was one of my earliest commissions and was carved in purbeck limestone. It was a present for Bill Cotton who worked as a producer for the BBC, he had recently retired and was celebrating his 70th birthday. The carving is based  an old “Bush” television set, and is actually carved as a three dimensional piece rather than as a plaque…but narrow enough to sit on a deep mantle shelf.

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