ARTIST AND MAKER
Griding up a portrait.
6x 8ft scaled copy of Jenny Saville's Second Nature, 2020.
Water-based emulsion on a wooden flat.
4 day griding up exercise.
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Click through the slideshow to view the process.
Cloth Painting
All That I Am
Cloth painting for the production of 'All That I Am' performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Skills involved in the process include; stretching a cloth, scaling up off a model reference. All painted in water-based ROSCO paints.
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Cloth Painting
A Doll's House
Cloth painting for the production of 'A Doll's House' performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Skills involved in the process include; Scaling up a model reference, priming and fireproofing, use of a spray gun, and naturalistic painting. All painted in water-based ROSCO paint.
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Click the video to see some of the painting process.
Marbling
Click the video to see some behind the scenes painting.
Cinderella
Marbled scenic painting for the pantomime of 'Cinderella' performed at The Torch Theatre, Pembrokeshire.
Skills involved in this process include; Scaling up from a model reference and painting faux marble surface textures.
To view more scenic finishes involved in this production scroll down.
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Director - Peter Doran
Designer- Sean Crowley
Scenic artists - Laura Withey
Alina Soare
To view more of the set and behind the scenes, click above to view Torch Theatres' Instagram.
Grass
Designer Sean Crowley's digital model
To view the set being built click above.
Cinderella
This production also involved an outdoor garden scape - including a grass floor and foliage masking. To view more of the set painting scroll up to see the marbled castle design.
Skills involved in this process include; Scaling up from a model reference and painting a faux grass surface texture.
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Woodgrain
Turn of the Screw
Woodgrain scenic painted texture for the production of 'Turn of the Screw' performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Skills involved in this process include; Scaling up from a model reference, priming and fireproofing, painting a wood grain surface textures, cloth painting and stretching a cloth.
Director - Martin Constantine
Designer - Mollie Cheek
Scenic artists - Laura Withey
Emilia Lamkin,
Ellen Brown,
Celine Kramer.
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TV
To view this giant TV on stage scroll up.
Turn of the Screw
For my role in this production, I constructed and painted the large scale 80's style TV unit to allow the actors to walk through the 'screen'.
Skills involved in this process include; Scaling up from a model reference, priming and fireproofing, poly-carving, scenic painting and construction.
To view the building process click the button below!
Texturing
Wife
Creating a three-dimensional magnolia flower garden for the production of 'Wife' performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Skills involved in this process include; Scaling up from a model reference, priming and fireproofing, use of a spray gun, cloth painting, marbling and theatrical shadow painting. All painted in water-based ROSCO paints.
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Designer Ruby Brown's model box design.
Concrete
Urinetown
Director - Kirk Jameson
Deisgner - Bethan Wall
Scenic artists - Laura Withey,
Emily Warman,
Amy Howard,
Anton Schilbach,
Ellen Brown,
Xiaoyuan Hou
Concrete texture for the production of 'Urinetown' performed at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff.
Skills involved in this process include; Scaling up from a model reference and painting a concrete surface texture.
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Mosaic
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A group scaling-up exercise, painting a faux mosaic surface texture with sand-like dirty down.
Below are my works.
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