Creative Fabrication

I offer engineering, design and fabrication services in a range of materials tailored to the needs of artists and designers. The images below represent collaborations with other creatives where I have provided specific technical expertise to support their creative vision or in collaboration with schools and museums.

Services include

  • TIG welding of steel, stainless steel, bronze and aluminium

  • Fabrication, machining and finishing

  • Hand forging

  • Repair and restoration of metal and mixed media sculpture

  • Design and fabrication of installation, display and support structures

  • Design and engineering development including technical CAD modelling, 3D rendering and animation

Johannes von Stumm

Stainless steel base for a carved granite sculpture

Wendy Stafford

Hand embossed copper leaves

Wendy Stafford

Wrought steel display piece for hand made glass flowers

Johannes von Stumm

Custom made castors and brakes for a large glass and bronze sculpture

Ball Joint

All stainless steel articulated ball joint designed and made as private commission

Museum of Steel Sculpture

Assisting with the disassembly of a large sculpture by Roy Kitchin prior to refurbishment and transfer to a museum in the United States

Copper Embossing

Series of embossed copper plaques produced in workshops with a primary school in the West Midlands

Copper Leaves

Some of over 600 leaves hand made every year to be embossed by pupils for a large tree sculpture at a midlands school

Wax Casting

A large wax panel being cast for a schools public art workshop

Johannes von Stumm

Fabricating fitted bronze 'shoes' to fit hand blown glass elements of a major sculpture by Johannes von Stumm

Johannes von Stumm

Fabrication work on The Three Graces

Johannes von Stumm

Three Graces installed on a stainless steel rotating plinth.

Isabel Knowland

A large stainless steel sculpture developed from an original concept bought to me by a client

Peter Hide

Installing a series of large steel sculptures for a major exhibition by Canada based sculptor Peter Hide

James Wade