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Thanks! Hah, yes I actually have done some tattoo designs!

I should be working on a commission for a client in Washington, but I can't get motivated to do it. Creatures are more fun, and they actually pay better! :)

Nope, just house jewelery so far. Thanks!

Copper sulfate, copper nitrate and H2O. I sandblasted it first... :D

Hello everybody, Here's a new piece that's going to some hotshot architect in Russia. He's really into Art Nouveau and bought 18 of my client's AN ceramic pieces at the show we did in March. The piece is a thank you commissioned by the gallery. His initials are ST so I incorporated them vaguely into the r

Hello all, I posted a number of my pieces for this show a while back. I'm back from Europe and thought I'd show folks how the booth looked. My client did quite well, the show was incredible. Hope we get back in! tefaf.com The highlight of the trip was seeing Horta's house/atelier in Bruxelles and Guimard's stuff (had already seen it, but it was still awesome) in Paris. It's been hard being back in the land of Wal-Marts and Applebee's! Luckilly I have plenty of work to keep me distracted... Bonne journ

Well, they are display items for my client's gallery that specializes in period (circa 1900) Art Nouveau ceramic pieces. My work and the the pieces he sells get along quite nicely!

Haha, thanks. Yeah, it hasn't been updated in 4 years, but here you go: johnhaleyiii.com Thanks everyone for the kind words! :D

Hi all, Just finished a bunch of display items for a NYC gallery's show next month in the Netherlands. I had less than 2 months to do everything (not all pictured here) and after several 70 hour weeks I am ready to rest! There are a pair of the cabinets as well as another shelf and a pedestal for a large At Nouveau pot he will be displaying. Now I get to relax a bit and get ready to go install all this stuff in three weeks! Cheers, John

Sure! Be sure to check out his stuff! It's pretty creepy by most people's standards but his sense of line is truly awe-inspiring. He actually started his artistic career doing architectural design, including iron railings and such.

HR Giger, (pronounced Geeger) Swiss surrealist and creator of the Alien creature from the movie series. He's definitely a huge influence, though I think a lot of the similarities in our work come from our mutual love/obsession with all things Art Nouveau.

Wow, thanks Bentiron! That's a huge compliment. I posted a few other things a while back here: http://www.iforgeiron.com/forum/f63/some-my-stuff-8880/ Thanks again.

Hello everyone, Just finished up a table for a client in NYC. I agonized over a lot of the design elements and in doing so generated several unused parts that will work great for my next project: a display stuff for a clients gallery/show booth. Good thing, all the work has to be done by mid February in order to ship to Europe for a show he's doing in March! Happy New Year fellow smiths! John

I guess I'm most profoundly influenced by nature. Artist-wise I'm pretty obsessed with all things Art Nouveau, Hector Guimard and Victor Horta above all. I really admire HR Giger's work and of course Albert Paley's early forge-based work. As far as the blacksmithing itself, it's pretty basic stuff. The gate I attached has a lot of pass-throughs and collaring, but for the most part my work is just a lot of tapers, some upsets and a few twists and textures. My main focus is on line and composition, forged steel really lends itself to this end. I work out of a small shop, nothing too stellar tool-wise. I rarely work anything over 1" square so my 50" Meyer Bros. hammer does fine, not that I don't have fantasies about a bigger pneumatic hammer! I generally work off a loose sketch and improvise a lot of the work as the pieces progress. This can be problematic as "sketching" in steel is different than on paper, but it always leads to happy accidents and ideas I just can't can generate in 2D. Mostly I try to have fun and do some justice to this craft we all love so much. :)

Hi all, I'm new here and thought I'd say hello. Here are a few photos of stuff I've done. Cheers.