Laura Carnell
With her exciting and innovative technique, Laura Carnell inlays intricate pewter designs into solid timber, creating beautifully tactile surfaces, invested with personal meaning.
Her work for the Glove Factory speaks of the quiet solitude and endless sweeping panoramas that she associates with her home on the Devon coast. Thoughtful pieces, ‘Shelf' is riddled with pewter memories of this coastal home, while Crane Lamp quietly celebrates the coastal industries.
"My work respects the rich craft-histories of both Pewter and Inlay, drawing on them for research and meaning. But by using a combination of digital technologies I have been able to work on a much larger scale, with more fluid and complex patterns than would have been possible using traditional methods".
For her, digital technologies act as a bridge between an idea and its physical material, translating a sketch or photograph into pieces of pewter and timber that can then be hand-worked to create a final piece. This hand-working and finishing is central to the overall feel of her work, returning surfaces to a crafts-based aesthetic and investing each object with time and care.
Her company, Rara Design, creates bespoke, contemporary inlaid furniture and interior products for both corporate and individual clients.
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