I like the elemental quality of plate steel and copper. Not for me, the sculpture made from found objects. I wanted to create something new, with flowing organic lines, as if it arose from nature.

The early work is created from 3mm mild steel plate, marked out from elevation drawings and cut out with a plasma cutter. Pieces are tack welded using a MIG welder; pulled into shape with clamps and some heating with oxy/acetylene. Once fully tacked together the joints are completely welded.
Joints are ground roughly with a grinding disc on an angle grinder, and then polished with a sanding flap disk. Tight corners are finished with a compressed airpowered die grinder with various grinding and sanding bits. This leaves all the welded joints with a smooth bright silver finish.

To obtain the blue - grey patina, the piece is heated with oxy/acetylene and a rose tip. This gives the surface a certain degree of protection from corrosion. Nialic is used to further protect the surface. 

Later works are modelled in Rhinoceros, a 3D CAD program. Rhinoceros allows surfaces to "unrolled" to produce patterns which are cut out of corten steel or copper on a CNC plasma cutting table.