The design and concept came about when I was approached by a lighting designer called Zara Vaux and her client who loved gardening and were renovating their new home in Suffolk. There was a double height atrium space above the kitchen, which is where this light would go.

There was also a magnolia in the courtyard outside the kitchen.

These beautiful sculptural shapes lent themselves to the material I have been working with - curved plywood, and the gesso shell, helped reflect the light.

By the hand made nature of each petal - each one is hand curved and then cut, the edges are sanded back to feathered edges, each Magnolia flower is unique.

The hand bent brass rods are carefully place to allow each petal to lift, some shield the light, some enclose.

As in nature, some flowers open and shut.