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December 2006
Review of last 6 months: Sold several Lumifonts and completed two custom
designs in my spare time alongside my demanding full-time job. First
Lumifont in granite boulder (a pig to drill!), and incorporation of UV LEDs
(more vibrant colours) and epoxy potting (simpler water-proofing) into
standard Lumifont design. So progress still possible whilst working. Hurray!
Withdrew Lumifonts from retail outlets Bygone Farm and Arty's as I had sold
the units myself. Decided to sell only from my studio from now on.
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November 2006
Arty's at Chorlton: Put Lumifont on display in Chris Malec's new art gallery
venture. Great location, but probably too bright for effect.
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1st June 2006
Back to work! Owing to financial necessity, I take up a full-time position
lecturing in Laser Physics to MSc students at Manchester University.
Orrelwood Waterworks is relegated to being a 'spare-time hobby business'.
This has the benefit that development of my artistic aspirations can
continue with less financial pressure.
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18th February
2006
A new sales outlet: See and buy the Lumifont at
'Bygone Farm', High Legh, Knutsford. Bygone Farm currently specialises in chimineas
and architectural salvage, and is aiming to become a garden
"Heat, Water and Light" centre.
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9th February
2006
Manchester Evening News article:
'My Passion' by Ben
Rooth
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5th February
2006
Sadly, our exhibition at The Printworks comes to an end. We are now looking
for another suitable venue to display our products.
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December 2005
Orrelwood Waterworks exhibition at The Art Collection Shop, Printworks,
Manchester extended into February 2006. Hurray!
Visit to see several Lumifonts running in our mock-Berber
tent! Plus
work by other local artists and sculptors.
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November 2005
A city centre shopfront! Chris Malec, manager of online art company The
Art Collection, agrees to a two month exhibition of Lumifonts at his
open house art shop in the Printworks building, Corporation Street, central
Manchester. Chris says: "Art is for everyone. We believe that
for too long people have had the perception that art is for the museum, the
collector or the gallery – THIS IS FALSE. Art is not something clique and
stuffy, but something that can be enjoyed by everyone anywhere. Whether it
is in the office, the home or the pub on a Friday night!"
We say "Right on, Chris!"
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October 2005
An exciting new product line! Working to an original concept by landscape
architect Ian Fisher, we design, manufacture and install a custom Perspex
cuboid, that looks absolutely out of this world.
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September
2005
First international sales! Lumifonts supplied in
custom pots to Malaga
and Barcelona.
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July 2005
Bronze medal success for 'Kidneys
for Life' garden at Tatton RHS show. Garden built
by QGardens with waterfall installation
by Orrelwood Waterworks.
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December 2004
The R&D begins to pay off! We make our first ever Lumifont
sales.... to private gardens in South Manchester.
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April 2003
Started R&D looking for interesting new
visual effects using light and water with a view to making new water feature
products.
