News and information regarding Hammer & Hand Bangalow.

I am looking forward to seeing these all aglow at night !

Our exhibition nights just get bigger and better every time!  Always an awesome atmosphere thanks to the fabulous people that attend, the braziers, the live music, the stunning work created by our fantastic team, the food and wine and this time an impromptu sword swallowing show!

I often use rivets in my work (in the landscape pendants for example), so I found I went straight into the ideas phase for the exhibitin with the word ‘riveted’ as a technique rather than a state of mind, but I tried to ensure I created a different style of piece than I had done before, which is where the layered bird/bush and branch/frond pieces came in.

Here’s a few pics of the work I created for the event (as always if you click on the picture, once and then again, you’ll get a bigger view):

how pretty some tins are?  And how not so many things come in tins now?  Or how fabulously ornate some of the old tins were?  How some of them are almost too pretty to sit in the back of a cupboard?

Well I have….and I also love rummaging through ‘stuff’ at garage sales and in op shops, and you’d be amazed at the things some people just don’t really look at – because if they did, they surely wouldn’t part with it!

I always have a list a mile long of things I want to try, explore, experiment with; and using the lovely mini-master pieces that are on old tins and turning them into wearable, mobile  mini-master pieces has been on that list for ages – I have finally made a start on them, and as my bench starts to become covered with glorious, rusty, colourful tins of all shapes, ages and sizes, here is an example of a few of the pieces I have up-cycled:  (all have been sprayed with a clear, matt varnish to prevent further rusting)

(If you click on the image, and then click it again, it opens in as a good size for viewing)