Entries - Ornamental

Singapore Ball in Gum and Purple Heart.

Gum Sphere (9cm diameter), 14 Purple Heart spikes - free floating (2.5cm length x 1.6cm diameter)

Ebony base (3cm tall x 4.5cm diameter). Overall dimensions - 12cm tall x 9cm wide

Molten rock meets glacial ice. Inspired by Iceland – a land of fire and ice, yet life exists. A statement feature for your home. This artwork spins freely: choose between two contrasting viewpoints. Timber: Macrocarpa and Sycamore. Size: Stands 1.5m tall.

Fun  and humorous project, walnut, Rewarewa, Spalted silver beech, Lemon wood, Sycamore. A collection of owls. Size: H 200 mm to 110 mm x 45 mm dia.

This cuckoo clock styled house is a connection to my German ancestry. The Waldorf Steiner inspired woolen angel is holding the Tree of Life symbol. Swamp kauri, matai, rimu and oak. 43 cm height, 24 cm width, 19 cm depth.

Billy tea

Inspired by a relic from a derelict hut. Made from wet turned blue gum burl, hollowed then scorched with a blow torch to create a weathered and battered look. Buffed with a scouring pad then lightly gilded with bronze gilding wax. 160x200mm

consist of 2 items, small bowl and wooden stick

bowl;

wood = Barberry

diameter = 160mm

hight = 60 mm

wood stick;

wood = Pittosporum

Dads Olive 

Made from a branch of an Olive tree that my father planted 42 years ago 

With added Olive leaves natural bark and natural voids 

this piece holds special memories.  

Sitting on three feet 100 mm w x100 mm h 

Cone and base of Casuarina cunninghamiana. Base turned and carved. Crack on lip of cone stabilized and left for effect. 85mm H; Cone = 63mm H x 62mm Diam.

Redwood from Rotorua with carved silver fern leaves that have been ebonised.

Bowl finish french polish/shellac.

Height 7cm, Diameter 23cm.

Hollow sphere, textured for handling with fluid planes.

Recycled timber from residential Kauri posts, 110mm diameter , pyrography patterned, micro-carved, dyes, paints and lacquer.

Red Malle Burl  Turned  Carved 

Gilders paste stains to rim  Danish Oil and Lacquer 

Sits on three feet 

135 x 280mm

Golden plane sound, hollow and colour bright,

Gold leaf on recycled house kauri, 200mm long , pyrography patterning, green and blue dyes and polishing.

NZ Falcon (Karearea) striking a Bellbird. Wood (including falcon's feet & talons) is Macrocarpa. It is 680mm tall x 600mm x 400mm. Feathers textured with pyrography. Birds painted with acrylics. Hung with rod embedded in wing. Completed October 2021.

This was my very first carving of a wood turned piece. The wood is Lemonwood it was a 4 pronged crotch piece. The base and half ball are black Walnut. Finish is 7 coats of lacquer and airbrushed. Size H 300 mm x base 140 mm top 180 mm.

Purple heart and plain wood. C Frame laminated to allow wiring to lamp. Koro and fern pyrography used with drilled holes to allow light through. All symmetrically formed to be pleasing on the eye.

450mm Height

325mm Wide

Leopard Pod, Hollowed with strong changing patterns.

Pyrography patterns on recycled Kauri house posts, 180mm long with dyes colouring and lacquer ,

The hollow form / natural edge was turned from Kowhai (Sophora sp.), the base is from Casuarina cunninghamiana, and finial from Gardenia sp. The entire piece = 308mm H; Hollow form = 133mm H x 154mm Dia.

Lighthouse

Segmented (12) Maple Beech and Purple Heart rings sitting on a created rock of pine with viewing decks of mahogany with 12 bollards, a rotating LED light, mahogany roof with a finial

35cm wide x 110cm high