Boxes.

I have produced wooden boxes with a wide variety of uses: to store blankets, to hold writing materials, for jewels, even to carry communion vessels for a clergyman - and often purely as decorative pieces.
I use the endless possibilities of gesso, water gilding, lacquer and paint, often including areas of trompe l'oeil lapis lazuli or malachite.

                             

                                           
                   "Saxon Disc" wrapped box: patinated silver leaf on
                               gessoed muslin, with burnished clay on gessoed wood.
                               16 cm x 16 cm x 34 cm.


                        
                                   Jewellery box: trompe l'oeil malachite                                  
                                   and patinated silver leaf on gessoed wood.
                                  20cm x 14cm x 14cm                                     

                                                                            
                                                               
                                   "Egyptian marsh birds" box - patinated silver                                        
                                   and acrylic on gessoed wood.                                               
                                   20 cm x 20 cm x 30 cm



                                                  
                                  "Bastide Tower" box: silver and           
                                  burnished clays on gesoed wood.
                                  21cm x 10cm x 10cm x 10cm                                  .                                                         
                                                                                          

                                                           

                  "Crofton Beam Engines" box: mixed media on gessoed wood.
                  18cm x 40 cm x 25cm



                 

                  "Indian Beans" box: gold leaf and burnished clay on gessoed wood.
                  7cm x 28cm x 12cm                                                                              

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