This spiralled wire held pages of sketchbooks and notebooks together.

When walking on the Norfolk coast, I often find rope from fishing washed up on the beach.

I made jewellery from nylon through the 90s and still have off-cuts to re-use.

Norwich Extra newspapers are torn by hand for the paper pulp.  The pulp recipe uses natural ingredients with the exception of  a small quantity of PVA.  The methyl cellulose paste (from wood) has no fungicide so not a risk to the plants.  Wax/oil is used for a microporous vessel.

Sea-sculpted brick are used for the bases of the single vessel forms.  I live in Norfolk and regularly walk on the east coast.  The erosion of the soft cliffs has caused landfalls, hence finding bricks on the beach.  I look for bricks which have been tumbled in the sea for long enough to soften the edges and create interesting shapes.

Through the 90s I made jewellery from nylon, then designed some lighting with  nylon.  The nylon was formed three-dimensionally by placing in aluminium formers, which I’d made.  I still have various thicknesses of  aluminium sheet remaining from that time.

Stainless steel is used to enable the balance element of the vessels in Balanced-Earth.  I buy this as a new material however the British Stainless Steel Association website states that that the recycled content of stainless steel is 60%, this together with improvements in manufacturing practice reduces the energy consumption, emissions and the carbon footprint of the producing mills.

Also I save every scrap of this material for recycling.

I source the  oak from the off-cuts bin of my local saw mill.