Craft Maker

Ken Parsons, Spectrawax Lighting

   Peebles, Scottish Borders
Established 1974
Web Address: www.spectrawaxlighting.co.ukEmail: Telephone: 01721 723033Mobile: 0791 9622488
Ken Parsons

Awards

Selection for Origin London

Unit 1
Southpark
Peebles
Scottish Borders
EH45 9ED
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Accepts Commissions

Price Range

Prices range from £50 - £160,000

Visitor count: 381

Totally unique and innovative work in wax and resin laminates which have been developed over 30 years of full time craft and art practise.

I have created wax lampshades which give the soft light of candles, which have incredibly intricate 'jewel-like' details only seen previously in the best millefiore Venetian glass. Designs come in limited editions of up to 5. All designs are abstract and universal, they have been often compared to the work of Gustav Klimt. Amazingly counter-intuitive works, these shades do not melt because they use long-life, eco friendly, low wattage mini fluorescents and the latest long life epoxy resins. In the last 3 years I have built and shown a 'Wax Room' at the Edinburgh Festival and currently at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. This is a room built using 106 sq. metres of this unique laminate, in the words of the Birmingham Post 'sumptuously and unashamedly beautiful' see www.thewaxroom.co.uk.

Awards won are: John Logie Baird Award for Innovation 1999 Lighting Association Best new decorative Lighting 1998