Nick Garrett

Category: Craftsmanship skills

  • Trims +refinements

    99% of commercial retail design falls off at the ankle yet one of the most important areas of design is the foot especially in turned or cabriole legs.  It takes several goes at finding the exact pattern and balance –

    Below:  The leg on the right has had a trim up lightening the lines through the base area.


    Master Chippendale had the foresight to get into the furniture pattern book game in its early stages. He carefully noted the popular styles of the day, and published a book called The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director in 1754 at the rather expensive price of £2.8s. It was supported by wealthy subscribers, and meant to appeal, as the title says, to both gentlemen and cabinet-makers, “as being to assist the one in the Choice, and the other in the Execution of the Designs; which are so contrived, that if no one Drawing should singly answer the Gentleman’s Taste, there will yet be found a Variety of Hints, sufficient to construct a new one.” (Preface).

  • ‘Invisible man’ artist hides in supermarket

    By Gaby Leslie | Yahoo! News – 4 hours ago  Edited Nick Garrett

    An artist best-known as the real-life invisible man has painted himself (or rather has had his brilliant artists paint him… errm, yep that’s right) again for a new photograph collection – this time against a supermarket shelf.Chinese-born Liu Bolin has mastered the art of camouflaging himself against a variety of backdrops and taking photos of the impressive results.
    The much acclaimed 38-year-old has travelled far and wide disguising himself across many surroundings, including a London phone box, a pile of bricks, the Beijing Olympic stadium, a Venetian canal and a graffiti-covered wall.
    Photo:PA

    A supermarket shelf may have been an odd choice of installation for the fine arts graduate, but he appears to blend naturally into the colourful stocked-up shelf of soda bottles and Pepsi cans.

    See Artist of the Month www.Artsight.wordpress.com
    The artwork entitled ‘Plasticizer’ was created to express his speechlessness at use of plasticizer in food additives.
    Photo:PA

    According to the artist, each photograph can take months of planning and the actual paint job can take up to ten hours.

    The new photographs are part of Bolin’s ‘Hiding in the City’ collection and are being exhibited at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in NYC until 28 August.