St Eunan's Cathedral Letterkenny

Working in Letterkenny Cathedral in Donegal with Decowell Restoration.

Decowell is a Northern Irish company that I have been working with for a few years now. They work all over Ireland and Europe. I work with them when they are in London or when I am in Northern Ireland, and I also do some design work for them such as layouts for print rooms and assist on other interior design projects.

From their site -
Decowell is a long established, award winning company that specialises in restoration, conservation and design of painted surfaces and the decorative arts.

http://www.decowellrestoration.com/

Uncovering a gilded fresco painting of an angel hidden behind years of paint layers. (estimated from 1920's)

Cleaning and restoring of the 12 stages of the cross and their frames.

The interior of the Letterkenny Cathedral.

2 of the 12 paintings being worked on.

Late nights working on the ceiling restoration.

I also had my picture taken for an Irish newspaper while working on this job. They published an article about the uncovering of the angel along with information about all of the restoration work going on in the cathedral. I think it might have been the Donegal News?

Skyline clock

3D sketches of Skyline clock

Sun and Moon make their way across the sky behind the London skyline through their appropriate times of day and night.

Front faceplate (skyline) would be available in different silouhettes of different cities.

Sea Shell Necklaces

Smashing!

Winner!

Artisan at work

These items are the result of my 100 objects project.
The idea was to create a small batch production of identical items to be sold for less than 10 pounds each.

My idea was to place an item of value inside one of the necklaces produced (for example a fifty or one hundred pound note).

The buyer would then have the choice of either keeping the necklace for its own aesthetic value, or smashing it up to see if they had the valuable item hidden inside.

The consequence of this action would of course then leave the buyer either with a very gratifying reward, or else a feeling of sadness in having just wasted ten pounds!

....or they could play it safe and just keep the necklace!

Each necklace, although being made using the same technique, came out completely unique in colour and pattern. I thought that giving the customer the opportunity to hand select their favourite colour/pattern would help build an emotional connection between the object and themselves, thus making it that little bit harder to choose whether to smash it or keep it!

Shells where coloured during the casting process to produce these random marble effects on their surface.

Plain white and brown shells. (first colour tests)

I will be selling this batch online through eBay for 5 pounds each (without the prize inside any of them) within the next week, and perhaps through other means. If there is enough interest in them solely as necklaces, I will then consider producing a full batch of one hundred with the prize hidden inside one of them!

Contact me if you would be interested in purchasing one!

Nick_digital@hotmail.co.uk