I have made many park areas for the containment of small children, and as I hate the idea of closing them in, I try to make something that can be played with and perhaps lighten the restraint.
A design for a finial to decorate the newly restored Mill of Kintail, original home of Tate and Ethel McKenzie.
The theme is "poetry and music".
The rectilinear sketch is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and reflects something of the era in which Mrs. Ethel McKenzie lived.
The developed idea is bringing aspects of nature and movement into those of music and poetry and is more feminine.
Its amazing how pictures of space are so close to the natural oxide colours of heated stainless.
The forging page gives an indication of how these flowers grow from the end of a steel bar.
A kindergarden area in Allens Gardens north london
there are lots of things to fiddle with. I didn't want the children to just feel caged in....