Lanterns
Otter Lantern
This large lantern is coloured to reflect the pale golden shafts of sunlight in the watery world of the otter, in a stream rich in reeds and fish. The back panel of this lantern has a pale copper gold finish in light layers over a silvery base to produce a unique watery gold surface.
Owl Lantern
The barn owl is depicted flying against a young moon in a rich midnight blue sky.
Swallows Lantern
As the sun sets and the Somerset levels fall into the first stages of twilight the swallows
Agapanthus Lantern
The pale blue Agapanthus has become a familiar sight along the Cornish hedges as they slope down to the sea on the Penwith and Lizard peninsulas.
This lantern shows agapanthus sprouting from moss covered rocks against a backdrop of crashing waves swept by the beam of a light house at twilight.
Fox Glove Lantern
This lantern captures the rich colours of sunset over the western seas, when the gorse flames with the orange and yellow of the setting sun and gannets drop into the ‘bridge of the sun’ sparkling across the darkening blue sea, to catch their last feed of the day.
Heather Campion & Chough lantern
Synonymous with the recovery of Cornish coastline wildlife is the red billed chough. Depicted on this lantern amongst the sea campion and heather of late summer. This lantern combines the rich rusted surface of acid patinaed steel with a reflective back wall of dark pink. This pink is the richest of colours in our range, a deep wine colour taken from the colour of August flowering heathers that carpet the clifftops of the Penwith peninsula.
Columns
Fish and Frog Column
This steel light column is suitable for mounting within a pond or on a pond edge. It has a night and day design. On one face barn owls fly over moonlit reed beds where a frog lies hidden. On the other swallows sweep above the bulrush beds where a fish lies sheltered amongst the coiling leaves of water reed.
Kelp Light Column
This half round column with a richly patinaed rust surface depicts the tide swept beds of sugar kelp off the Cornish coast.
We use hand painted acids on steel to create a richly figured rust surface. This half round form will hang on a wall or can have a painted reflective back piece as a lit column.
Screens
The Rhyne Brass Screen
Across the levels of Somerset are ancient drainage canals called Rhynes filled with wetland wildlife. This screen is designed to cast beautiful shadows and to dazzle with reflected sunlight, as does the water surface of the pools and Rhynes of the levels. It depicts swallows above a reed filled waterway with a trout motionless below the flowing stream. It combines polished stainless steel and brass and can be installed as a frieze panel within a wall or as a stand-alone screen.
Read bed Fish
The same combination of mesh and brushed stainless steel is used to create a silvery fish to catch the light amongst long grasses and pond side reed beds. They are supported on two steel rods.
Brass Crashing Wave Screen
This shadow casting brass panel illustrates the crashing waves of the western approaches catching the glint of the sun on the wave faces
Shadows
Dandelion wall shadow
This 2.3m high steel profile has been rust patinaed to create a warm sunlit feature that casts giant shadows of dandelion flower heads and leaves, evoking the childhood pleasure of lying down among the stems of a meadow.
Swallows
Made from a combination of layers of polished stainless steel and fine steel mesh these dynamic profiles cast faux 3 dimensional shadows.
They can be used as individual features casting a shadow from sunlight or a spot light onto a wall.
We also create bespoke light installations where a sprung brass bar holds a variety of swallows in flight, creating a swirling feature around a spherical lamp.
They come either with a brushed metal surface or with a rich black powder coat finish infused with a faint iridescence of purple
For every order of over £150 of our swallow features we will send out an RSPB swallow or martin nest box in an attempt to help conserve this charismatic species in times of ever increasing challenges on their 6000 mile migration.
Stained glass windows
Fern
Made by a local stained glass artist using the medieval techniques of the church window makers, this stained glass panel depicting ferns is designed to hang within a garden space or be set with in a iron pergola where it would glow and cast richly coloured transluscent shadows when backlit by the sun. This leaded window is expected to last at least 500 years.
Fire Pits
Fern Fire Pit
Cut in 5mm steel plate this 1m wide large fire pit is designed to cast swirling shadow patterns of autumn fern leaves and has an expected life span of 20 to 30 years. The classic dodecahedron form sits on three feet and has a solid base with a central drainage hole. The pierced design is based on the Fibonacci spiral of leaves on the 12 faces of a dodecahedron. The interplay of the natural form of the curving leaves and the pure platonic solid form, the dodecahedron, creates a mesmerizing wood fire hearth.
A smaller version can be adapted to a gas flame
Bespoke Gas Features
We create bespoke gas flame lanterns and flambeaux for BIO LPG.
Benches
Swallow Bench
A hand forged steel bench finished in patinaed zinc, made in a Somerset blacksmiths, features two of our stainless steel swallows. This sturdy 2 seat bench creates a beautiful feature for a sunny corner of a walled garden where the swallows can cast their shadows.
Raised beds
To help you create plantings around our lanterns we also make a unique raised bed system. The sides can be made to any bespoke order but they consist of 3mm thick steel plate with a hand rolled steel motif top edge and giant interlocking turned steel hinges on the ends that allow you to create whatever polygonal shape you want in your garden space. These are made either in a rusted or a oven baked paint finish. We can quote for creating a bespoke set from a simple hand sketch of the shape and height required.
Please not that in the photographs shown the corner hinge pins have not been driven fully into the ground.
