'Deuddeg'                   

In 1990 the late Lord Peter Carrington approached the Royal College of Art with an opportunity for new graduates to make work for his sculpture garden.
My final show included a floor piece made with stacked cut roof slates and from that my first commission on leaving college developed.

The pattern of cascading slate triangles comes from the ‘net’ or flattened out form of stellated dodecahedron.
Deuddeg is Welsh for the number twelve. There are twelve five sided pyramids on each face. When flattened out each spike becomes a fan shape.
The inlaid pewter pieces are sections cut through the three dimensional solid shape, each one carved out and then poured as molten metal into the preheated slates.
Thre are three different colurs of slate used and two different sizes of triangle.