Maker

With a background in prop and model making for theatre and film, I offer a broad range of making and painting skills to make scenery and objects for performance, exhibitions and events.

Whether you need a bespoke piece for your wedding or durable human-friendly props for a touring theatre production, I offer creative solutions to help your ideas happen, working fluidly between different materials, with a specialism in sculpture and scene-painting.

Smaller sculptures can be constructed in ceramics or carved wood, but as we get bigger, I can carve your ideas in recycled polystyrene and cast in plaster, fibre-glass or resin.

If you have a project or individual item that needs realising or developing, contact me at inkdreams@yahoo.co.uk or via the commission me page on this site.

Fairground horse for Waterside Theatre production of 'Carousel', carved in expanded polystyrene.

leaf-shaped butterfly nets for touring theatre

signpost constructed in plastic and wood for Coventry exhibition, designed to resemble local street architecture

giant wrapped ring made from recycled polystyrene, foam cladding and brown paper - made for Bold Text's 'Gem of a Place', performed in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, summer 2022.

Dali's Mae West lips sofa, Titian's 'Assumption of the Virgin' and Michelangelo's 'Pieta' - whatever your artistic vision, I can paint or build it for you !

Venetian mask painted with watercolour: Not every prop idea needs to be huge and theatrical. I painted this mask with watercolour scenes commemorating European holidays for a friend's special birthday.

The Elgin Marbles [detail], made for television from polystyrene sheets. Two 12' x 8' panels took me 8 days to carve.