'Not I' and 'Happy Days', back to back special, now on the JC Joels Website!

Having ordered the Canvas from JC joels, the designer sent a few images of the final result over to them. They only went and featured our work on their website! Lovely job!
check it out here, http://www.jcjoel.com/projects/projects-2014-2/

Been a little busy over the last few months to keep my blog updated.  Since Christmas I've been really involved with the Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham. I'm currently working on a design for the 2014/15 season, the opening show of the year to add! very excited. To end a brilliant season, a good friend of mine is designing 'Jerusalem', by Jez Butterworth. Just finished painting the floor for him. Painting a bark/dead leaf effect isn't something I've attempted before but the combination of colours and paint technique has worked really well. It blends with the camo- leaf curtain behind quite well. 

The show is going to be cracking with lots of laughs. A lot of hard work has gone into the project, including sourcing, demolishing, transporting and rebuilding a caravan just to make it onto the stage!

You can get tickets here- http://lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTheatre.dll/WhatsOn?Programme=313049&Tab=performances

be sure to get one!

Two of my favourite images from last nights Zygote Festival in Sleaford. Fantastic lighting design aerial performance from the gorgeous Alex. It was really nice to get back into doing some photography work too, and I love the images produced.
Well done and massive thankyou to the guys from Carre's Grammar School for creating the Zygote 'pod'. It worked out brilliantly!

Some shots of the work I completed with community artists on making withee lanterns and a large withee cocoon structure in Sleaford a few weeks back in preparation for the Arts NK Zygote festival. with the festival coming up on the 20th of this month, thought I should probably post them! Really enjoyed getting into schools and working with a range of ages, including a small workshop with some primary school teachers. Always interesting to find out how the work we teach them will be approached in schools and families in the community. Will try and get some shots of the final production and the school's contribution of lanterns too on the day!

Some awesome shots of the sign on set I made a few weeks back. Really looking forward to seeing a few of them on the final footage. exciting! 

Photos courtesy of Amy Nicholson.

'Variete' Youth Music Theatre UK

Just finished the two week programme as Assistant designer for Youth Music Theatre UK's production of Variete! It went by so quickly, but I got to meet some great people and make loads of lovely things. Including this awesome body double for our lead role who had to be hung in the first scene. I spent the duration of the run sitting him in seats next to the cast and packing him away in a suitcase for travel just to freak everyone out as he was so realistic! Absolutely loved it, great experience and very much recommended!
Nice old review from the Financial times. Lovely job,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4ee0aabc-115a-11e3-8321-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2djBMBk6q

Getting back into the swing of things by volunteering to help prop make for polymath pictures this afternoon.

I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Amazing how you can transform cardboard into wood just by rendering it nicely.

Sign for a French tavern in an up and coming web series, which I will be avidly promoting on here in September!