Edmund Harriss
Mathematician, Teacher, Artist, Maker. I like to play with the ways that the arts can reveal the often hidden beauty of mathematics and that mathematics can be used to produce interesting or beautiful art.
Colour pattern created using the hierarchy of the Penrose tiling. The colours reflect those found when a Cherry (Sakura) leaf is fired in Japanese tenmoku glaze.
A family of lines, all orthogonal to concentric ovals, cut into an oval of walnut.
Three designs showing patterns that can be obtained running a CNC mill along lines. For the first two pieces the lines are defined purely mathematically. For the third the lines are constructed by an algorithm to lie at right angles to the grain.