A commission for 100 1:25 scale pigeons for a model box.
Here’s my process;
One Hundred Pigeons
Tag: Miniature
Flying Machine
The Fairy Boom!
Hundreds of fairy doors have been attached to the bases of trees in Wayford Woods, Crewkerne.
It is claimed the doors have been installed by local people so children can “leave messages for the fairies”.
But trustee Steven Acreman said: “We’ve got little doors everywhere. We’re not anti-fairies but it’s in danger of getting out of control.”
Originally an extension of nearby Wayford Manor Gardens, the 29 acres of woodland boasts a stream, meadow and ornamental lake.
Set up as a charitable trust in the 1990s, it wasn’t until the beginning of the millennium that the first fairy moved into the woods and installed a “little door” in the roots of a tree.
“It fitted perfectly, it had a little turned handle and inside was a bed. We didn’t know who had done it but we left it there,” said Mr Acreman.
“But then another door appeared and now it’s gathered momentum.”
Originally an extension of nearby Wayford Manor Gardens, the 29 acres of woodland boasts a stream, meadow and ornamental lake.
Set up as a charitable trust in the 1990s, it wasn’t until the beginning of the millennium that the first fairy moved into the woods and installed a “little door” in the roots of a tree.
“It fitted perfectly, it had a little turned handle and inside was a bed. We didn’t know who had done it but we left it there,” said Mr Acreman.
“But then another door appeared and now it’s gathered momentum.”
At its peak a year ago, more than 200 little doors had been screwed, nailed and installed on trees, according to Mr Acreman.
And with little tokens, fairy toys and notes secreted behind some of the doors, it has rapidly become known as “the fairy woods”.
“We’ve had as many as 10 doors put up on a single tree; they surrounded the tree,” he said.
“We had a complete fairy fairground arrive, but we rejected that planning proposal.”
With elfin construction now including “more and more garish” plywood doors with “lots of tinsel and glittery stuff”, Mr Acreman said they have had to bring in “quality control” to remove the worst offenders.
“It’s a very complex situation and nobody’s admitting that they’re evicting the fairies,” he said.
“It’s just that fairy control is required otherwise we’d be covered in fairy doors.
“We put a lot of time into the conservation of the woods. We’re trying to keep people to the paths but the fairy doors are making it a free-for-all.”
As you Like it
Process Photos
Final Conceptual Model Box for Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’
Waiting for Godot: Conceptual Design Project
As the final project to conclude the model making term, we were set the challenge of design a model for a production. I was give the weighty task of designing a stage for the “Waiting for Godot play” by Samuel Beckett.
It took me a long time to pull apart the script and find a visual way to interrupt such an ungrounded text.
First Scale Model
This is the first 1:25 scale model room and figure!
Miniature Dwellings
Return to the Forbidden Planet
During my year on foundation I was given the opportunity to design the set for the production ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’. It has a place in my blog because it was the main reason why I decided to do a degree in Theatre Design.
It was the first time I was involved in the design process from the initial ideas, to technical sketches and scale model making through to the construction of the set. The whole experience blew me away, I loved the collaboration and communication for a common course that bonded everyone together.
Many thanks to Colin Thomspon, Drama lecturer at Hereford Sixth Form College.
Shell Shelters
Miniature houses made from Porcelain, Shells and bark.
Isabelle Wilkes 