David Ellwand’s metal sculpture explores the poetics of form, celestial mapping and material memory. Hand forged in West Sussex.
Hammered copper disc with glass enamel over copper domes, aluminium castings and copper detail.
Mirror, mirror…
Digital experiments from organic materials.
Forging has become an obssession. I usually recycle scrap metal, making Damascus steel billets to create sculptures and the occasional knife. The mini forge was a personal challenge: to test whether I could make a working blade the traditional way but on a tiny scale.
An ongoing series of work produced over the last fourteen years, concentrating on six acres of centuries-old West Sussex sweet chestnut coppice and using a variety of historic cameras and techniques.
The beautiful coppice hides secrets in its many layers of leaf mould, including the relics and remains of centuries of fighting.
It’s now twenty years since the first Fairie-ality title was published and I continue to craft fashion and interiors for the little people of the woods.
A collection of analogue images. I have always preferred taking pictures in winter.
Travels with cameras
The hut I built from scrap; hidden in the woods, it’s somewhere to escape the everyday.
Images from my book RetroPhoto, an Obssession, originally published in the UK in 2015 by Old Barn Books Studio.
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I have illustrated children’s books photographically for over 30 years now. My first book is still in print and the teddy bears march on.
