PROJECTS
Order Of St John
The Museum of St John Museum tells a story of the venerable Order of St John from its roots as a pan- European Order of Hospitaller Knights founded in Jerusalem during the Crusades, to its present commitment to providing first aid and care in the community through the St John Ambulance Brigade and running an Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem.
The project required to develop and realise individual responses to the museum's collections and history. I created an interactive piece representing the Maltese crosses within a parquetry surface designed with scrutiny. Having also incorporated the mathematical Sierpiński triangle into my design equation to add a sense of indirect symbolism. The polished marble represented Palestinian Stone and Marble. To make the table authentic I only chose hardwoods, one of them being olive wood incorporated into the parquetry as it is their native tree, which they harvest olives turning them into olive oil which I used to protect the surface of the table.
STAVE HILL PROJECT
You can never have enough seating. Seating in public, commercial or at home. My proposal for Satve's Hill Ecological Park was an Organic seating complex with a vegetation station comprised of horizontal layers, resembling natures inherently self-organising and naturally occurring forms and layering patterns. The shape of the seating is an aerial outline representation of Stave Hill’s ecological sector. Divided into four individual pods with cavities providing foliage. in conjunction with additional communal seating. The pods were also dissected into four to embody the four elements of nature earth, water, air, and fire. The pieces are constructed out of reclaimed floorboard planks claimed from a renovated house in Kensington. The main seating is hollow including pods inside for extra seating and planters, imitating somewhat a Russian doll. Botanical and geographic characteristics are featured. Within and around the seats there is an assemblage of native plants, vegetables and herbs species, to attract the locals and pedestrians to pick a few strawberries or some mint for their afternoon teas and picnics.
The complex attracts people to it's aesthetically pleasing and welcoming structure. Encouraging to enjoy the park and appreciating it. A catalyse for acknowledging the asset of growing plants and their significance. Providing long-lasting stable seating for the park has ticked off a dream of mine as a designer.
CERAMIC
CENTREPIECE
My ceramics centrepieces offer an eye-catching and refined accessory to an interior with a dose of organicness and sculptural integrity. Executed on the ceramics wheel and lathe, completely hand made. These are one-off bespoke pieces, no two are precisely the same providing uniqueness and special value.
The Miel collection pieces are all hand-glazed and are available in dramatic complementary colours.
I'm working on marble pieces as an alternative made from natural Italian Carrara marble. Marble provides timeless and dramatic elegance. The chic marble ushers in an elevated sense of luxury to any space. Due to variations occurring naturally in the stone, each Miel is truly effortlessly unique. Marble also looks stylish and rich with brass. A duo combination of marble and brass will offer an elevated glamour to your table and interior scheme.
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AROMATIC PLANTERS
These plaster containers visually represent natural ingredients historically known for and used in cooking, beauty and fabric dying. Each container is truly unique, each sprinkled with various natural spices, herbs and tea residues for scent and automatic fragrance to fill up a room. Plaster is quite porous and brittle, therefore an alternative has been formed to create a more reliable product. The concrete pots and planters contain the same ingredients: Turmeric, Chai tea loose leaves, Cardamom, Vanilla extract, coconut husk, chia seeds, cinnamon, mint etc. Some say the smell is uplifting and some say aromatic. The plaster pots act as a diffuser on its own and the concrete are reliable planters.
MIEL COLLECTION
My Miel collection of ceramic centrepieces offer an eye-catching and refined accessory to an interior with a dose of organicness and sculptural integrity. Executed on the ceramics wheel and lathe, completely hand made. These are one-off bespoke pieces, no two are precisely the same providing uniqueness and special value.
The Miel collection pieces are all hand-glazed and are available in dramatic complementary colours.
Through investigating the preliminary research I explored dynamic shapes and configurations within natural occurring undulating forms and translated into my ceramics, scrutinising the arrangements of structure and natural language of shapes, for instance, rice terraces in the Philippines.
I'm working on marble pieces as an alternative made from natural Italian Carrara marble. Marble provides timeless and dramatic elegance. The chic marble ushers in an elevated sense of luxury to any space. Due to variations occurring naturally in the stone, each Miel piece is truly effortlessly unique. Marble also looks stylish and rich with brass. A duo combination of marble and brass with offer an elevated glamour to your table and interior scheme.
SKETCHBOOK STYLE OF WORK
Be free with your sketchbook. Don't let the white pureness of the paper hold you back. If afraid attack the paper with a force of wild imagination and scribble away. I work on black, off-white and brown wrapping paper. They're not as intimidating and incorporating other neutral and rich colours allows you to be creative and make your work stand out. All sketchbooks are distinct and working with an immediate approach benefits you as a designer to be true and authentic. Here I've put together a small collection of my sketchbook pages spanning six years of work. Enjoy and be inspired!
PEWTER AND WOOD
Combining materials is a way of showing their unique properties and characteristics. Marble and elegance, wood and strength, metal and density, clay and forgiving. How effective is it incorporating material considerations into the design process. To address this it is important to consider the materials with regard to the three core elements of aesthetic, function and fabrication. Effective design strategies require that materials considerations permeate each of these aspects. In addition, the materials used to embody the final design usually determine or influence the relationships between them. In reality, the choice of materials both influences and is influenced by each of these three aspects.
MODEL MAKING
Model making is a significant part of any project. It can be as naive and crude or as spick and span as wanted. As long as there's some form of physical communication between you and the project and you with an audience through that model, any issues or uncertainties can be solved through a model. No matter how eye-catching, formally provocative or simple your idea is, creativity also develops through a physical pice which you can scrutinise and inspect through observation or rotation, manipulation or duplication. With a collection of models, a unique exhibition transpires revealing an evolution of your own revolutionary ideas.
Dynamic
CERAMIC
CENTREPIECE
My Miel collection of ceramic centrepieces offer an eye-catching and refined accessory to an interior with a dose of organicness and sculptural integrity. Executed on the ceramics wheel and lathe, completely hand made. These are one-off bespoke pieces, no two are precisely the same providing uniqueness and special value.
The Miel collection pieces are all hand-glazed and are available in dramatic complementary colours.
I'm working on marble pieces as an alternative made from natural Italian Carrara marble. Marble provides timeless and dramatic elegance. The chic marble ushers in an elevated sense of luxury to any space. Due to variations occurring naturally in the stone, each Miel is truly effortlessly unique. Marble also looks stylish and rich with brass. A duo combination of marble and brass with offer an elevated glamour to your table and interior scheme.
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HERBS AND ORGANIC MATTER TERRERIUMS
For years I've always have incorporated nature and natural elements into my work. I wanted to attempt growing herbs and spices in plaster since it maintains vast amounts of water once poured in. With each jar containing plaster, I also added several layers of organic matter to facilitate the seeds to grow from other natural elements. These including eggshells, fertilised soil, wood chips, clay, observing and recording how well each individual herb grows in each container sealed with a cork lid. Once a week I would spray water and ventilate the jars allowing new fresh oxygen to circulate inside. The experiment proved to be successful and my theory of growing herbs in plaster had worked. Some herbs growing at different rates and some more successful but all in all my little experiment was worth attempting. I would like to investigate more of organic growing, particularly growing your own fabrics and inventing biomaterials.
FORM STUDIES
Any project I ever do I start the design process with observational studies of natural forms. It's the best way to exercise the brain and stimulate creativity.
ART WORK
My Miel collection of ceramic centrepieces offer an eye-catching and refined accessory to an interior with a dose of organicness and sculptural integrity. Executed on the ceramics wheel and lathe, completely hand made. These are one-off bespoke pieces, no two are precisely the same providing uniqueness and special value.
The Miel collection pieces are all hand-glazed and are available in dramatic complementary colours.
I'm working on marble pieces as an alternative made from natural Italian Carrara marble. Marble provides timeless and dramatic elegance. The chic marble ushers in an elevated sense of luxury to any space. Due to variations occurring naturally in the stone, each Miel is truly effortlessly unique. Marble also looks stylish and rich with brass. A duo combination of marble and brass with offer an elevated glamour to your table and interior scheme.
