My stand at the CMYK book fair at HCA in May 2024, I have been following this new direction in my work for about the last five or six years.
Below on ‘Doris’ at a Silverstone track day at which we melted the surface of the tyres, she might be 31 years old with spongy front and no back brakes but she was still a lovely bike. 
Below is a copper dish. I often work out designs first in copper before translating into silver.
Below, pouring iron for a sculpture at Kohler foundry in Wisconsin.
Above, inspecting the assembly with the cast panels in place for rail bridge parapets at Deventry. At the same time I was making the wine coasters and ‘chased’ silver dishes shown further down. The cast iron beams immediately below are for the Art Workers Guild building in Queens Square in London installed 2017.
The images above are not in sequence but show some stages in making a pair of commissioned wine coasters, each set with 66 x ( 6 x 4mm) moonstones.
Wearing a funny hat. I now realize that I’d forgotten to untuck my trousers after getting off my bike, also I hadn’t been able to find my shoes, hence the trainers.
Transferring the drawing to wood for carving.
There can be no undercuts or roughness to the surface.
Below, beginning to ‘chase’ a silver dish & above, first pattern completed.
When ‘chasing’ silver it is set into pitch for shaping with steel punches. Here I am burning the pitch off. If I have time I will dissolve the pitch off overnight with white spirit.
The pictures above show some stages in the making of a commissioned fruit dish.
Below, working in the Kohler iron foundry in Wisconsin in 2008
Below, I spent Thanks giving with Roger, a staunch Republican, the year Obama was elected. I worked with Roger in the Pattern workshop at Kohler.
Below, walking into work with Bill and Phoebe with whom I shared a house.
Above, farewell meal with some other guys I worked with at Kohler iron foundry.
One half of the AWG wood pattern for a cast iron barrel vault beam completed ready for sand casting and below the first iron beam.
Above, breaking open sand moulds and below stacked aluminium sand castings.
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