Bird&Bee's Makes & Marvels: out and about...
Here you'll find a selection of rich pix that will give you an insight into all the things we make and do - enjoy!
Welcome to the 3rd Floor.
Ding...step inside...you're welcome to have a wonder around, take your time - there are plenty of gems inside.
You'll find a selection of our work in visual arts, illustration, graphic design, sign writing, prop making, performance and our very own original Bird&Bee products too. If you see anything of interest, please leave us a message.
Signwriting - 3rd Floor - at Afflecks Palace, Manchester.
An elephant in the room...
The Herd of Sheffield - an elephant in a big room...
Original concept for our Herd of Sheffield application.
'The Elements of an Elephant’ is a design from local artist Ryan Patrick Morley of Bird&Bee who worked with the Design & Visual Arts students of The Sheffield College to produce an organic, natural response to the project. The design encompasses night and day, the sun and moon and flora and fauna using a colour palette sympathetic to nature and the magnificence of the wild Indian elephant.
Detail in the design draws from Asian henna influences and also includes the star constellations and dense teak forests where these elephants can be found in their natural habitat.
Imagine walking into a warehouse in Attercliffe and finding one hundred white elephants...
Submitted design for Herd of Sheffield
Myself and four students from my Visual Communication class at Sheffield College after Day 3 of painting our Elephant.
Detail from above...
Our elephant, 'The Elements of an Elephant' painted with help from the students of The Sheffield College. It forms part of the Herd of Sheffield, a stampede hapening this summer all over sheffield to raise funds for The Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity. You can find our elephant on Paternoster Row, outside The Howard, opposite the train station.
An elephant's backside...
Daytime side....
Nightime side...
Showtime, with Harmony the Spectacular Automatic Drawing Machine...
Here I am at work, with Harmony, performing one of our shows at Kelham Island in December. Harmony is a touring curio that draws harmonic pictures before your very eyes.
Harmony - creating thrills and magic before a wonderous crowd...
Little Tom Thumb, hypnotised by the magic of Harmony...
Harmonic drawing in progress.....
A happy experimenter with her own drawing...
The things we make and do...
Bird&Bee's flagship product, first created in 1999 and has now sold over 50 000 copies worldwide. The Chart depicts the movements and motions of the Sun and Moon throughout a full year in one easy to read print. Full moons, New moons, Solstices, Equinoxes, Sunrise & Sunset times and a wealth of other information - all in one place.
The 17th edition (2017) will be available in August 2016 here: http://www.birdandbee.co.uk
Peddlars Night Market, Sheffield, 2nd July 2016
Bird&Bee's Popular Fireside Companion, a 30x60cm litho print available in Green or Vermillion that depicts Britains 44 indigenous trees, what's good to burn, what's not...
...a fireside guide to our most sustainable heat source...the perfect accompaniment to any wood burner or open fire. Availble framed, with hanger or as a print.
A selection of Deluxe postcards from Bird&Bee, depicting old showbill posters of famous magicians from the 19th Century - available from http://www.birdandbee.co.uk/shoppe
Bird&Bee's Picture Hangers - a new original product from Bird&Bee. Designed and made in Sheffield to hang prints, posters, textiles and artworks. Made to any size with antique oak, brass fittings and strong imbedded magnets that self locate at the top and base of the print - ready to hang. Find them here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/267390111/antique-picture-hanger-standard-popular
Making our Picture Hangers...
Antique Oak being prepared for Bird&Bee's Picture Hangers...
A different grain in every set...
Picture Hangers ready for delivery...
Bird&Bee's Picture Hangers join forces at Eroica Britannia 2016 to accompany this year's marvellous posters. #handsome
A game of making thrones...
Detail of The Throne, made for an adaptation of King Lear
Applying gold leaf and paint...
The making of The Throne...
Detail of one of the arm rests on the throne...
Detail from the head section of the throne...
This is the throne we made for Open Minds Theatre Co. - one of many props for a series of performances based upon King Lear.
Other props we made for this performance include a cake, a crown, a nectar tasting display, a heart and a portable stage.
Detail of the bejewelled heart we made as a prop for the OMTC production of King Lear...
A fake cake we made for OMTC's production of King Lear...
Work for Chatsworth House
Tree identification panel for the Stickyard, Chatsworth Estate. Each tree is illustrated along with its seeds, fruits, leaves along with reproductive cross-sectional detail. All illustrations by Bird&Bee.
Woodland habitats identification board illustrated for Chatsworth House...
One of a series of A0 interpretation panels we designed, illustrated and produced for the new Stickyard at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.....
Solid Oak Lectern we made to display interpretation panels for the Stickyard at Chatsworth House
Sketchwork: concepts for Chatsworth House
Illustration of the Compost Area at Chatsworth House before colouring
One fo the boards designed and illustrated for Chatsworth House in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Archeology Department...
Interpretation board showing the making of Charcoal in Stand wood, Chatsworth Estate..
Graphic Design and illustrative packaging for Pumpkin Oil created on Foil to give a traditional, Italian feel for this popular accompaniment.
My class of 2016 BTEC/Foundation Visual Communication, The Sheffield College...lovely bunch of young, creative minds...
Screen Printing at the The Sheffield Print Club...
Geometric pattern forming for concrete molding structures during the 3D Design Btec I lecture on.
Making and playing with kaleidoscopes...
A one day architecture build workshop where we made structures based on chosen images out of Kraft framing tape we use in the framery...
Illustration of the Lamplight Fish which can be found 3000 metres down in the Mariana Trench, making it's own way in the dark with it's very own anglepoise lamp!
Illustrations from the BTEC Visual Communication course which Iecture on.
The Grand Tour...experience the charm of gravity assists...
Bird&Bee also has a framery. This is the biggest frame we have made to date...an 8x5ft World Map.
This one sits in our home at Number 13 on the West wall of our map room.
This is an oak box-frame especially commissioned by one of our dear customers to display a poppy made by Paul Cummins
that formed part of the exhibition Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London...
Etched aluminium waymarkers set in an Oak post. I illustrated 12 different trees to make a Tree Finder Trail at Heeley Millenium Park.
This is one of 3 diffrent trails we made...
Etched brass ring for a centre piece in a sensory wildlife garden. The theme was 'Auspices'; which were seers in Roman times that read omens through nature, bird movement and the weather.
• Tempus Fugit - Time Flies • Carpe Diem - Seize the Day • Horaz Non Numero Nizi Zerenaz - Count only the bright hours •
