Pamela Martin was born 1949 in London and studied at Loughborough College of Art and Design. Collaborating with Peter Chatwin (1945-) she established a workshop in Leicestershire in 1981 making intricately constructed dyed wood laminate pieces as jewellery, bowls, platters, vessels and boxes.

Chatwin and Martin developed a unique method for laminating wood to form the basic material. Thin tiles of sycamore are hand-dyed in a vast range of colours and glued together to form a layer block. The block is then cut, glued and cut again, and realigned any number of times to form intricate patterns of stripes. In other pieces the blocks are shaved carefully to expose layers of colour in a more painterly way.

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Glossary

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    The arrangement of elements or details in an artefact or a work of art.