I thought that, if I am going to be doing my Open Studios exhibition in a gallery rather than my studio, then it would be good to have some nice ‘centre pieces’ for the show, so I set about designing something on a rather grander scale than I usually make.

I drew up the design in meticulous detail to get the curves to flow as I wanted and to provide an accurate cutting template, so it will be interesting to see how this finally turns out.
As you can see, it’s not sitting as smoothly as I want yet, so there will be
some tweaks to the piece before it is complete, but I'm pretty pleased with it so far.
As you can see, it’s not sitting as smoothly as I want yet, so there will be
some tweaks to the piece before it is complete, but I'm pretty pleased with it so far.