katy
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Hi. I’m an experienced Visual Artist, now making Props. I have a background in 3d Digital Modelling, and Horticulture.
I’m looking for entry level positions in the Art Departments of Film and High End TV.

Mood Boards,
Concept Sketches, Research
For Tudor Weapons
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I’m currently constructing the Tudor Dagger props in EVA Foam – see progress on Instagram: @hoodkaty.
Props
Concept Sketches, Technical Drawing, Model,
Life Size Spaceship Cockpit with faux Metal paint effect.
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My cockpit design was made with Plywood and Perspex with my colleagues: the design evolved as we constructed.
Garden Design and related Graphic Design.
Garden Design, clockwise from top left:
Historic Walled Vegetable Garden planting plan for National Trust, Chartwell (Sir Winston Churchill’s former residence), Kent, UK.
Other garden designs and visualisations;
Photo of a Dye Plant Garden I made for Yalding Organic Gardens;
Info Board made for Syon Park, Middlesex, UK.
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Carpentry
I built this shed from scratch, on my own.
It’s still solid and watertight!
The baseplate is an irregular pentagon shape, to fit into the corner of the garden, so the design was quite challenging.
I reclaimed doors, other timbers, and sheet metal, to fit it out, and clad it in recycled hardwood (Australian Turpentine) – which used to hold up a quay in Sydney.
I’ve also made furniture from green oak and beech, using only traditional handtools. (Great courses here)
Props
Miniature Set: A “Space Canyon”
Design, Concept, and a portion of the finished Set.
“Space Canyon” is constructed from MDF and waste plastic, hand painted and airbrushed.
It is part of a fly-through set for a student film on the UAL (University of the Arts, London) Prop-Making and Set Decorating course.
2d Animation
and
3d Modelling Examples
Left: 2d Animation Short made with Flash;
Right: 3d Modelling with 3ds Max and Houdini. Anatomic Head is example of work I did for Primal Pictures in London, UK.
Props Work in Progress:
See my instagram feed below for recent work