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Chasing--repeatedly hitting shaped metal tools with a hammer--allows me to draw on metal, with the advantage that the final metal picture can be a flat canvas or formed into full life-like relief. New work is always underway--the best place to view this is currently on my instagram profile.

I recently made 496 bronze flowers for a Plum Tree Screen in a contemporary Chinese tea-room, designed and built by Cory Barkman. You can see pictures on Cory's Facebook page, and in my blog posts.

Cory Barkman's Contemporary Chinese Tea-room, commission for a private home, Saskatoon, Canada.

We have 31 x 21 x 2 inch version of this sculpture available for purchase, featuring 44 unique chased bronze flowers, mounted on hand-carved stained walnut, and powder-coated aluminium. Mounting and installation materials will be based on the location. Please contact me for more details.

Repousséd and chased bonze flowers - ready to be pierced out from the background metal.
 
All About Iris is a wall-mounted sculpture, with three panels in aluminium, brass, and copper. I made a short 'making of video' describing the design process, and the ideas that inspired the piece:
 
  
 My 17-piece installation of chased and repoussĂ©d equine studies, In Dreams, was shown by the Alberta Craft Council in their Well in Hand exhibition (Edmonton, Canada). The on-line exhibition is available here (from image 74 onwards).
 

Please contact me to enquire about developing your story into a highly detailed work of metal art.

Work in progress: Run, made by chasing and repoussé. Portrait study made from flat brass sheet metal, 0.8mm thick.

Chasing’ is the use of tools to create lines or texture marks on the surface of metal, it can be just like drawing. But the artwork can also be made into a three dimensional form by hitting and stretching the metal surface from behind—‘repoussĂ©’—to sculpt relief, or volume, into the metal surface. The Statue of Liberty is probably the most famous repoussĂ©d object in the world (...zero chance of me making anything that big in my studio!).

 

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