Adrian McCurdy

Seating with Colour

A patchwork of layered colours, applied as wash over the top surface. The dye is absorbed only into areas freshly adzed, sealed and re-adzed for a different colour.

Seating with Colour

A Scottish colloquial name for low stool is creepie. Using iron mordent and dyes, colours are added using the medullary rays patterns as background floral shapes from moorland landscape.

Seating with Colour

The stool has a gentle rock and steady position in upright. Water-based dyes enhancing the grain and applied in a subdued tartan pattern suggesting dying embers of the hearth.

Seating with Colour

Cleft oak with mineral mordents and dye. With earthy colours of peat and smouldering fires this stool has associations of simple rural life and the precious surrounding environment.

Seating with Colour

An early challenging piece assembled from riven oak. The seat top has adze tool-marks separated by washes of red and yellow dye. With a lacquered finish and small rocking action.

Seating with Colour

A patchwork of layered colours, applied as washes over the top surface. The dye is absorbed only into areas freshly adzed, sealed and re-adzed for a different colour.

Seating with Colour

The stool has a gentle rock and steady position in upright. It's a new design that features the shape and grain of quartered oak with boarded construction and added colour.