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Over the years, together we’ve dabbled in graphic design, photography + film work, illustration, and web design + code, trading first as sole traders with our own small businesses, then combining them to form a partnership under the name Lightbulb Head. Since having children we’ve folded the business so aren’t currently earning money from our creativity, but that hasn’t stopped us from creating.
In this section there’s a selection of some of the projects that we’ve worked on over the years – scroll down for the most recent, or use the categories on the left to see specific projects.
This was the first large piece of pyrography artwork that Kiri produced, taking around 12 hours to burn by hand onto the board once it had been sanded. The dark areas were created using a ballpoint pyrography nib – producing lots of small dots and a beautiful texture
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Kiri made these pendants from birch wood that she cleaved with a froe, then whittled down into a teardrop shape. Once sanded back, she burnt these designs by hand onto the wood with her pyrography pen, oiled the pendants then attached a leather cord
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Taking slices of of beautiful cherry wood, Kiri sanded them, then used pyrography to create a variety of designs as Christmas decorations. These were then finished off with red and green twine to allow them to hang on trees
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In 2024 Kiri started experimenting with pyrography (free hand burning of designs into wood). So far this has mainly been on hand-cleft birch wood
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