Decorative Screens & Art Panels
I have created a wide range of decorative metal screens for many applications. I work closely with my clients helping them to create their own bespoke designs.
The examples below include artistic screening on shade shelters and garden artworks.
My art panels include hand-painted designs and metal bird wall motifs.
This sturdy garden screen depicts a detailed design of Western Australian flora and fauna, including honeyeaters, banksia and Sturt peas.
My original hand sketches have been laser etched into the surface of the anodised aluminium sheet.
The sheet was then carefully rolled to form an arc.
The screen serves the dual purposes of hiding unsightly household bins whilst being a beautiful, durable garden artwork.
These hand-drawn red-winged wrens and eucalyptus branches are cut from highly durable 4mm marine grade aluminium. They have been powder coated to suit the colour palette of the house.
The individual pieces have aluminium fixings welded to the rear to enable them to be discreetly wall mounted and to stand slightly proud of the wall, creating a subtle shadow.
I have an extensive range of native bird and flora designs which can be used to make similar wall features.
This bespoke fire screen features birds from Australia and New Zealand, representing the client’s connections to both countries.
To the lefthand side there is a pair of tuis, large New Zealand honeyeaters. To the right there is a pair of red-tailed black cockatoos.
The curved screen is fabricated from laser cut 2600 x 1300 x 2mm steel.
I have designed a series of nine decorative shade shelter artworks. Each design is site-specific. The artwork designs add dappled shade to the renovated shade shelters at Coogee Beach in WA.
The original dilapidated shelters offered little in the way of shade. I worked with Artforms WA to create far more functional structures with an artistic relevance to site.
Together we worked around the existing framework, adding angled aluminum artwork panels to create additional shade. These laser-cut art panels allow light to penetrate, scattering beautiful shadows from the images on to the ground below.
The sub-roof designs are able to be lit from above at night.
The artwork elements include a giant octopus, shoals of fish, sea horses, turtles, a leafy sea-dragon, shells, local flora, honeyeaters and native quendas.
My laser-cut aluminium panels for Macfaull Park in the City of Cockburn, WA were designed to meet the criteria of creating shade and adding a windbreak to the barbeque area.
The City requested a design which would permit daylight to penetrate and highlight the artwork whilst using a minimal number of penetrations to help shelter this communal area from the wind.
The design depicts two cockatoos sitting in a bottlebrush tree.
This laser cut stainless steel farm scene art panel was designed for a client with a farming background.
Starting from hand-drawn sketches, we collaborated to include all the elements which my client requested.
The design includes eucalyptus trees, an old Ford tractor, a windmill and dam and a kelpie rounding up sheep.
My client wanted to create an artwork which would disguise an unattractive brick wall which dominated her outdoor area, whilst stirring memories of a life spent on the land.
Perth Zoo requested my help with designing an educational sign which would double as a safety barrier near the crocodile enclosure.
Perth Zoo supplied me with images and dimensions of their previous long-time resident crocodile – Simmo.
I designed a life-sized depiction of Simmo lying on rocks which was laser cut from aluminium donated by Capral Aluminium. This was then anodised and laser etched with his image on both sides.
The crocodile was then mounted on either side between water jet cut and routered rocks.
Made from Corten steel, this garden art panel was one of my first designs.
The panel was made in 2010 and still looks great in its exposed position, close to the sea.
The design of falling liquid amber leaves is laser cut from highly durable 6mm Corten sheet.
The double return fold to all sides, creates a strong boxed edge enabling the panel to be secured discreetly to the wall.
In 2020 the RSL Western Australia commissioned the creation of an artwork for the newly build Anzac House Veteran Central in St. George’s Terrace, Perth. The design incorporated elements representing Australian armed forces. It is made from boxed aluminium panels of laser etched and laser cut anodised aluminium with contrasting backing plates.
Following the theft of bronze inground artworks from Mount Lyell, the Town of Mosman Park sought a replacement which would deter future theft.
I faithfully reworked the original designs from the faded fax images provided by the council.
The designs were then laser etched into the surface of black granite discs which were made to the exact dimensions of the holes left in the footpath from the original artworks.
My laser cut Australian birds are designed for garden installation.
They can be made to any size from Corten, aluminium or stainless steel.
Choose from a wide range of bird designs or work with me to create a bird of your own choice.
My hand painted palm pods are designed and made to order.
I can work with you to create your own design. Alternatively, choose from my extensive range of West Australian flora and fauna design elements.