Blue Horizon Hotel
The glass fountain is the focal point of the lobby, while a series of glass partition walls provide separation from the adjoining restaurant.
Complementing the lobby's ocean theme, the artwork is inspired by tidal sands and ocean currents.
Renfrew Library
Title: All our Knowledge has its Origins in Our Perceptions
Inspired by a quote from Leonardo da Vinci, the geometry of the piece is inspired by his drawing "Vetruvian Man". Entry to the library from the lobby is through the sculpture.
This project is a collaboration with Brian Baxter.
University of North Florida Library
The artwork was conceived as a suite of windows based on a concept of "quiet contemplation and a connection to nature". The five themes explored are water, fire, earth, flora and fauna.
Eldorado Gold
Eldorado Gold is an international gold exploration and mining company, with headquarters in Vancouver. The glass wall is a centrepiece of the main lobby, expanding the interior designer's vision of "representing the gold mining process", while providing privacy for the staff lounge behind. Inspiration comes from fractured rock, raw gold veins and nuggets embedded in the Earth's crust.
Photos: Brad Laughton
St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center
The glass sculpture for the lobby of St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center is an abstract depiction of rural Nebraska. Inspired by studies of landscape and aerial photography, fields, rivers, rolling hills and country roads are referenced in the work.
Attessa III
The Attessa III is a 250' private yacht. The ship's main staircase is capped by a cylindrical skylight opening onto the upper deck. The glass "Vortex" consists of six offsetting layers of tempered glass, edge-lit with LED lighting.
HSBC Canada
Title: Past Present Future
This mural of reflective glass is 12' wide x 30' high. It floats 1 ½” off the wall and is mounted on hidden hardware.
Researching company archives, I discovered a fascinating assortment of themes and images which helped to inspire the work. Continents and oceans provide a global context for the images which illustrate the past, present and future of HSBC. From an original current accounts ledger to the cryptic language of computer binary code, the mural provides a glimpse into the storied history of HSBC.
University of British Columbia
This sculpture celebrates movement and the west coast oceanic environment with an abstract depiction of a whirlpool. Suspended from the 30' ceiling, the piece is 12' in height and weighs 1200 lbs. It is illuminated from within by LED lighting which slowly cycles through a range of blues and greens.
New England Biolabs
These atrium entry windows for a biomedical research facility explore the basic elements of nature.
OSF Saint Francis Children's Hospital of Illinois
The "Canticle of the Sun", a hymn by St. Francis of Assisi, provided the inspiration for this lobby sculpture. Relevant aspects of the hymn and the life of St. Francis were established through consultation with the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis and the art consultant.
Imagery includes the San Damiano Crucifix, hands of God and Adam, flowers, cave of St. Francis, birds, lamb and rabbit footprints, feathers, sandals, sun, moon and stars, the Franciscan cord with knots and selected passages from the Canticle. The random but symmetrical layout encourages viewing of each panel individually.
Inspiration for the base came from the symbol for Tau, letter of the Greek alphabet that reminded St. Francis of the Cross of Christ.
Holy Cross Hospital
This hospital has a long concourse with 5 seating / waiting areas fronted by part-height walls capped with bent glass. Each bay has a different theme.
Pictured is Evening Sky.
Lawson Lundell Lawson & McIntosh
The design references the architecture of the building as well as the old english script taken from a 16th century law indenture held by the firm. Design elements from these panels were repeated throughout the 5 floor offices to create corridors of glass with light and privacy.
This project is a collaboration with Brian Baxter.
Pendulum
This sculpture is inspired by the Foucault pendulum which is a simple device conceived in 1851 as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.
The 16' tower of steel and glass supports a hand-blown solid glass plumb bob, which when swung, scribes patterns in the sand. Counterbalance is provided by a hand-blown solid crystal ball.
Sonora Resort
Sonora Resort is a remote wilderness / fishing / health resort located off the coast of British Columbia on Sonora Island.
My scope of work included 4 clusters of floor-to–ceiling Monoliths (4 seasons), windows surrounding the doors leading into the dining room (rain theme), a lobby sculpture (sea lions) and a 14' wide acrylic and steel mobile for the Great Room (kelp), which slowly moves in the wind currents of the room.
Port Moody Recreation Complex
Title: Movement - The Search For The Perfect Form
The sculpture is an abstract depiction of movement, something which is common to all sports. Located on the exterior side of the second level clerestory windows, it is prominent, yet out of harm's way.
The sculpture is 33' wide x 10' high x 2' deep. 18 glass panels were bent, laminated, silver-stained, fritted, carved and polished, then suspended on powder-coated steel brackets.
This project is a collaboration with Brian Baxter.
Placer Dome Mining
Researching company archives led to the design of a mural exploring the past, present and future of Placer Dome Mining.
Starting on the left are depicted: the dredge used on the Bulolo River in Papua, New Guinea (site of the company's first mine), photos of the airlift into the Bulolo, miners in an early Dome mine, a mineshaft headframe, a compass and a cross-section of a typical underground mine. The background is a mapping grid with geological anomalies delineated. The four major minerals produced by the company are represented by their atomic number and symbol.
The entrance to the boardroom is framed by the silhouetted benches of an open pit mine. The right side panel depicts a conveyor system feeding a coarse ore stockpile, a section of a flotation process flow sheet, and the future, symbolized by the globe of the earth and planets (the planets are core samples from a company mine which were sliced like salami and polished, then epoxied into holes cut in the glass). Standing at the extreme ends of the mural are steel drill bits from the Dome mine; on the left, rusted antique (the past), on the right, new (the future).
This project is a collaboration with Brian Baxter.