Shavings brooch - purple, green, yellow. Reverse

Shavings brooch green, orange, blue. Reverse

Shavings brooch purple, green, orange with cone

Postcard courtesy of The Crafts Council UK

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Marking 30 years of creative practice - archiving and reflecting. Up-cycling and using waste materials in the 1980’s

As a student Elizabeth gathered the wood shavings from the woodworking workshop floor & dyed them in the textile department - this was her raw material. Back in the woodwork department she made two-part moulds on the lathe then combined the dyed wood shavings with a powdered synthetic resin and packed the mixture into the moulds which were then put under pressure until the material had cured. The result was a series of 3 dimensional forms which Elizabeth then cut & sanded to reveal the colourful marbled surfaces and combined them with dyed veneers. She also used metal in combination with her shavings material.

The images here show a series of brooches made after graduation in the early 1990's. It was these pieces that helped Elizabeth obtain her Crafts Council setting up grant in 1993.