Researching fluted, or finned, forms
 Thinking in ridges and fins, how the shadows cast lines which follow the surface of the form.
  From time to time I read photography magazines and blogs in the vague hope I can pick up a few tips to improve my photography for my website and other publicity tools. It's my least favourite job because my photographs never come out as brilliantly as I think they will (I have never so much appreciated the skill of professional photographers!)
 Oh well, this just makes my efforts look feeble! by Wenzel Jamnitzer, from his book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of Regular Solids) 1568, which is full of amazing images like this. WJ was a German goldsmith and artist - not a geometrician or mathematician as I would have imagined. Working in the Northern Mannerist style, he was a court goldsmith, clearly extremely skilled, and must have been very important.   A few years ago I dreamed up a work to be titled Objects of the Earth Celebrate the Birth of the Sky. It was to comprise 80 - 100 smallish ceramic objects arranged on a low table or plinth on the floor, or even just on the floor. These objects were to have earth-related shapes and the fact they were ceramic and made of earth was important.
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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them. 
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Mug design from a sketchbook from c2003 when I was studying ceramics at Barnet College
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September 2020
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A 2013 work book, still very much in use 
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