Hidden Spirit

Continuing on from my earlier blog on inspiration;
John Lee - His cabinet curves out which reminds me of architect Frank Lloyd-Wright and even Richard Serra's metal sculptures. The curve on my cabinet is different to John's.  By using a curve to add another dimension to the cabinet gives a three D look. 
John Makepeace - The carving on the cabinet front is inspired by this exceptional designer/maker. Once again my carving is different. My carving is focused on two lines, so if you look at it, it's all working towards these two lines. I can create different sized shapes off these lines. I want you to focus on a line, then you can see the shapes out from that line giving the allusion of flow. If you don't have any point to focus on it's random not flow.
Malcolm Harris - his cabinet has a similar carved front although my carving encompasses all the cabinet where as his carving is contained inside a frame.
 I didn't want the carving to look like John Makepeace, Tom Kealy or Malcolm Harris, I wanted to have some uniqueness about it. It's very important to me not to plagiarise anyones work. You can use other artists work to inspire you but NEVER copy anyone else's work.
Other furniture makers have used curves and carving before so this is nothing new.