With a background in Fine Art Christine Meyer-Eaglestone MA discovered marquetry while studying cabinet-making.  She soon realised its potential as a contemporary visual medium and now produces exceptional furniture and wall-art.

She creates unique pieces, amongst them wall-based art works and functional items with a marquetry surface – ‘functional works of art’.

When I met Christine at London Craft Week she explained that she always cuts veneers by hand. The work is so intricate.  On close examination it’s hard to believe  the precision she achieves to create her designs. 

 She uses a combination of conventional and ‘reconstructed’ veneers (made in Italy by laminating thin rotary cut sheets of various dyed woods).  These allow for subtle and sophisticated or bold and dramatic colour schemes and designs. 

Drawing inspiration from architecture as well as music.  She is also influenced by an underlying appreciation of early 20th Century Art such as Cubism, Constructivism and the Bauhaus.  In some of her work you can see the influence of Japanese design.

You can see more from Christine Meyer-Eaglestone  at her website www.cme-art.co.uk