Mirrors, Frames and Doors
Mirror frames and art frames provide yet another opportunity to recycle fine timbers. Both these types of frames make for a creative challenge with marquetry inlays, simply because they are a narrow canvas to work with. All the frames included here were either commissioned or sold at exhibitions.
Golden Whistler marquetry inlay detail 'The Whistler and Robin Wall Mirror' in recycled northern Silky-oak.
Eastern Yellow Robin detail from 'The Whistler And Robin Wall Mirror'
The Whistler And Robin Wall Mirror
Yellow Robin Mirror Frame in recycled northern Silky-oak.
Righthand side of the Yellow Robin frame
'The Superb Fairy Wren Mirror' in recycled Teak
Female Superb Fairy Wren inlay.
Male Superb Fairy Wren inlay. Some of the veneers here are Black heart sassafras, Ebony, Camphor-laurel and Sycamore.
The Waney Edge full length mirror frame in reclaimed Jacaranda.
Male Red-backed Fairy Wren, Jacaranda mirror
Female Red-backed Fairy wren Jacaranda mirror. A few veneers here are Orange, Leatherwood, Spalted Tuckeroo and Black heart Sassafras.
The Red-backed Fairy Wren sideboard mirror in recycled northern silky-oak.
Detail of the female Red-backed fairy wren.
Detail of the male Red-backed fairy wren.
Crested Shrike-tit mirror frame in recycled Northern Silky-oak.
Marquetry inlay detail of The Crested Shrike-tit.
Male and female Red-backed Fairy Wren 8 segment elliptical mirror in Pigeon Berry Ash.
Art frame in recycled Northern Silky-oak, Gum leaves in Camphor-laurel and Huon pine.
Kooka print framed in recycled northern Silky-oak.
Silky-oak detail
Frame corner detail showing the spline mitre. All of the framed works and prints that I do are done in this way. No staples, no screws, no nails only joinery.
The Black-throated Finch mirror in recycled northern Silky-oak.
Black-throated Finch detail.
These old garage doors were rescued from the local tip. They were striped restored and new glass fitted. They then found a new home between a kitchen and laundry.
The completed pantry door with it's mesh panels in place.
The pantry door in situ.
The beginnings of a pantry door in reclaimed Kauri Pine.