My style of chasing is very detailed and illustrative. I handmake my tools to cater for the small details required for my designs. I like there to be hidden details to my pieces, making the viewer intrigued to turn a piece around or have a closer look, as well as discovering something new every time you look at it, quite like when on a walk, you never go on the same walk twice, you will always have a different experience and spot something new.
 
A few of my pieces are just surface chasing, applying the decoration just to the one level, but I’ve also used a different form of chasing where there’s different levels to a piece, by pushing the background down around various parts I want to stand out like around a tree, making it come to life and having more of a three dimensional quality to it. As well as this I will sometimes turn the piece over and push the parts out further, using repoussé punches. 
 
The process of chasing itself it quite relaxing and almost like a form of meditation, as I’m guiding this steel tool over the metals surface, in a sort of movement that’s tranquil as well as the repetition of the light tapping from the hammer hitting the top the steel punch.
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