One of the first sculptures I made and the one that caught my teachers' attention of my aptitude for clay. I made her hair out of feathers that were glued on after firing. The horns, as the name suggests, were inspired by Maleficent. The structure is made from a large slab coil to provide structural support. 

My largest bust, Cyborg was my first sculpture to have fine line. This sculpture presented additional challenges due to damage it received during creation. The antlers were snapped off by a vandal at the leather-hard stage. I carefully rehydrated the antlers to avoid further damaging the work and to allow reattachment to conceal the damage. The wings broke mid-firing and were glued together after. Her half-shaved head inspired the cyborg direction and fusion of nature and machine. The structure is made from a large inner coil with a top attached to support the shoulder structure and head – which was made from two pinch pots. 

A collection of polymer medallions, these creations are based on designs that were sketched by another artist. It was when I made these, I realised my knack for and enjoyment in making creatures, specifically animals. 

This bowl was an experiment to play with different techniques such as forming it from a slab over a ball and sgraffito to create different glaze effects and patterns.

Bronte is a red/gold dragon that initially looked like a brontosaurus hence the name. Bronte is the first creature I’ve completely scaled, a process taking several consecutive hours. I created her by making an aluminium foil armature that I coated in Polymer sheets which I then shaped and carved. The wing skeleton is made with a wire core and polymer coating. Once I completed sculpting, I brushed her with gold mica powder to give her the gold appearance, then baked her. I wanted her to have translucent wings, and I created her membrane wings with thin-poured resin using tape to create the shape and removing the tape once the resin had hardened. She is finished with two coats of clear gloss varnish. Bronte is also a dragon I’ve created for a story I’m planning on writing which is where her design has come from.  

Opal is an iridescent white dragon whose colour gave her name. Being the second creature, I’ve completely scaled, Opal was made through the same process as Bronte with an aluminium foil armature coated in polymer. She is the first creature where I’ve scaled the face, with this process taking several days. The eyes were coloured with mica powder before I baked her. The white enamel paint I coated her in twice was mixed with iridescent purple mica powder creating the purple shine. As the second coating was drying, I dusted her in the powder accentuating the shine. As a final coat I again mixed the mica powder with the clear coat making her very shiny. I had intended for her wings to be folded however the resin wasn’t playing ball so they became sheets that I cut to shape, the small one didn’t work at all so I made it from scraps of the big one.  

Tighn, is an anagram for Night which I thought was a bit clever. Once more Tighn was made the same way as Bronte and Opal: aluminium foil, polymer, mica. Tighn presented more challenges than the other two as he’s huge. This was the main challenge as when I started putting the polymer on the weight of it made the armature warp, thus also cracking the polymer repeatedly. Another problem was the wings; this was the first time I rolled polymer into thin sheets to make the membrane as opposed to resin. I did this because the model is too big to resin pour the wings on. Once the wings were attached, I began scaling it which ended up taking too long, causing numerous unfixable tears in the wings, so I didn’t actually finish the model completely. Tighn is also a character in my story.

These are ideation sculptures of a character I’ve created for the story I’m planning on writing. Ronin is a dragon born and this is how I designed her face and hand to be though the hand is mid transformation from human to dragon.

At 6cm wide, this is the smallest dragon I have ever made. It is attached to a pin backing designed to be worn as a brooch. I made it after the other three models Bronte, Opal and Tighn and thus had the patience to make a tiny, detailed dragon using the same techniques as the other large ones including individually laying each scale and rolling thinner than paper sheets of polymer for the wings. 

Oswald is a candle holder designed as a dragon on it's hoard. Oswald is built from an aluminium foil armature covered in polymer. For the dragon instead of individually placing each scale I rolled a textured pencil over it which gave a surprisingly nice scale pattern. The hoard was textured with a wire brush to look mainly like rocks but I brushed with gold mica thus making it a dragon hoard, not a rock.

These are a collection of cabochons including blue and red lace agate, labradorite, rhodonite, quarts, tree fern and pyrite. The pyrite on the right I made for selling and is as reflective as a mirror.  

I made most of these a week before my first market. This is a collection of sodalite, flourite, lepidolite and tiger eye earrings and necklaces, most with just bell caps with the best of each stone type set in silver. 

The left-side necklace is my first attempt at doing filigree, in this case I did it to see the tortoise shell pattern embedded in the stone. What type it is I don’t know but it is, quite cool. The right-side images are part of the jewellery collection I made for a market. These are the best of each stone type set in silver with decorative filigree backings save the sodalite at the top which is plainly set.

This is a recreation of Elrond’s ring that he wears throughout The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It is the second ring and the first triple stranded band I made, the likes of which some people were betting couldn’t be done due to the rings complexity.

Bob is a silver and lapis brooch I made for my dad. It is my most intricate filigree design I’ve made thus far and proved many creative challenges such as how to make wings and a tail out of silver. This took me a while to figure out using wire over plate though the result was well worth the wait.  

This is perhaps the thing I'm most proud of and is the first time I've worked with leather. This belt has been made for a viking OC. This character is seperate from the story I'm writing and is just for fun but is however, awesome. The etching in the diamond was particularly fun to make, the rune in the center is based of the Cirth, runic alphabet that Tolkien used to create the Dwarvish runic alphabet in The Lord of the Rings and is a combination of I and V, my initials. I initially looked at Elvish runes and writing but decided on Dwarvish to create a stronger more presented rune over the elegance of elvish. The belt itself is made out of three types of leather, for the base two, the colours weren’t the same so I dyed them to be the same colour (in reality the colour is pretty close to the same, the pictures however don’t do that justice). The accent leather is much thinner than the base so that it could be folded over to hold the brass attachments. From these loops a variety of leather bags and attachments will hang to fill out the personality of the character. 

These are bags I made for a belt which is threaded behind them that I can wear at either my waist or hip. I painted elvish inspired designs on the flaps with a colour changing fabric paint for a bit of pizzaz.  

This is an outfit I made for my brother, it is tailored to his size and specifications for dancing. This was the second time I made mens pants which was challenging since i still didn't quite grasp the pattere. To fix some problems with the sizing i ended up putting 'racing stripes' down the side and at the cuff.

This is a suit I made for my dad which turned out quite spectacular thanks to the beading on the lapels, collar and pocket flaps. The beading took a few months due to the amount that had to be done.  

This was a dress my mum originally made for herself but didn’t finish due to a tear in the front panel. I then later finished the dress by embroidering the entire front in order to cover the tear. Though it was small we had to make the patch look like it was intentional hence the amount of embroidery required. 

This was an interesting make curtesy of the stretch of the fabric and twisted drape of the design. Despite the complex design, it was relatively easy to make once I understood how the bodice was constructed. 

Princess is a medieval inspired, fantasy dress. It is perhaps the most delicate dress I’ve made due to the thinness of the chiffon complete with a three layered skirt which in and of itself was a whole new challenge. The bodice was carefully tailored to my body so that the chiffon wouldn’t move or warp being worn due to being too big or two small. The most difficult part was the skirt due to its weight and size.  The cape was challenging also due to the amount of fabric, other than that thought, relatively simple.