Guinness Park Royal Brewery commission...

I was lucky to exhibit at the first MADE London event last October, where I was showing a large piece with a tree dominating a Parisian Park building.  I sold that over the weekend, and also received this commission, based on the same composition....

My messy desk...

The finished piece...

From the side - the tree was sticking out quite far!

The beautiful shadows cast....

The client chose this building as he'd worked there...

From the side...

Cheshire church commission...

A couple got in touch late last year, to see if I would make them a special commission of the church where they got married. It was a beautifully quaint black and white church, which looked lovely in wire....

I made the church first, see the drawing behind...

It was on a square board...

The 'props' made the wire stick out quite far from the board.  Please note - these are shadows cast on the board, not pencil drawings!  (Some people often get confused by this!)

I liked how detailed and 'cute' it looked once made...

View from above...

Do get in touch if you'd be interested in discussing a commission :)
www.helainasharpley.co.uk

Lampposts lampposts...everyone loves a lamppost!

Just before Christmas I was asked to make work to send to the Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong...exciting!  So, this week I've been making lampposts...

'La Rambla' lamppost drawing...



The wirework of 'La Rambla' lamppost

ooh look at all those twiddly bits!

The development...

Still alot of work to do...

The Other Art Fair....

This weekend I went to London, to have a nosey around The Other Art Fair.  Where I discovered typewriter artist Kiera Rathbone - you have to see them to believe them, as they're so intricate and detailed - very clever idea! 

Anywho, afterwards, we wandered to Green Park, through W1, where I discovered many beautiful and grand buildings, which may become wirework pieces one day - here are a few....

Saqui and company...

All the wire bits are there...

...but where do they go....

All done!  Check out the shadows!

Here's a sneak peak of a new big show piece I've been working on.  It combines many of my favourite things:- an elegant building, housing a clock and watchmaker, next to a tea merchants, with lots of fiddly writing and detail!  More photos to follow.

This week's work...

I have had a busy week, and finally got all the work posted - here's a few of the pieces I've been working on..

Peterhouse Entrance , Cambridge (for 'East Anglia Revealed' exhibition at Byard Art)

Leeds Leeds Leeds...

Today has been a mixed and tiring day, but excellent!  Here are my highlights, I know Samantha will share hers too... although we were together, so they may be similar! :0)

Ducks on the roof!

The Artists book fair at the lovely Parkinson building

Leeds city museum... an almost symmetrical building!  My favourite kind of building!

La shark

The Maccabees!

Lampposts of Milan...

Here are some better photos (courtesy of Andrew Stone of Black Orchard Photography) of the lamppost pieces I sent to the Affordable Art Fair Milan, which started on Wednesday night... and all sold by Thursday evening!  An excellent start to the year!

Lampposts of Milan...

Here are three of the five lampposts I made for the Afforadable Art Fair Milan... I know how exciting!  I delivered them to Byard Art in Cambridge, who will be representing me at the fair which starts next week.  I've never been to Milan, but I do like their 'ball -y' lampposts!

Final commission of 2011...

I was making this piece (and packing it to post) right to the wire (no pun intended!) before Christmas.  A lovely, thoughtful man commissioned it for his wife. 

Morecambe...

 

I've been to Morecambe today, this is the very grand Winter Gardens.

These birds are part of the tern project.

I also went to Kirby Lonsdale and had some amazing lemon cake in Emily's tearoom and did some Christmas shopping :0)

Gigs in libraries...

 

 Tonight I went to a gig at Lancaster library...what a grand building...

 

I had a coconut cupcake.... they were personalised 'Summer Camp - welcome to Condale' (The band and album title.)  Yum!

 The first band on was 'Alt-J'...they made me smile.

 

Here are Summer camp doing a little acoustic number...

 And to prove it was in a library, here is the 'Books in different languages' section.

 This gig was part of 'get it loud in libraries' - a novel way to get people to visit and use libraries - a great idea!

Beautiful Bruges....

 

Samantha and I went to Bruges this weekend - here are the edited highlights...

We went up the clock tower in the main square, all 366 steps!  The amazing 'clock a matic' mechanism made the 26 bells chime, very impressive.  We wandered for ages (and got a little lost) but we discovered so many beautiful buildings... I would highly recommend a visit!