“Not only a thing of beauty, but also brilliant engineering”

“So, this is a massive studio, and this is the gallery where people will sit on computers watching things being made and of course they’re going to be still, you can’t heat all this space because it would cost an absolute fortune. So, I thought I’d try infrared heating because I’ve been interested in that for a while and you can get these amazing infrared – sort of halos – which they use a lot in churches, so they not only have lights but also, they have heating elements, which means that they directly heat the objects and not the space itself.

So up here, where it might be really cold, this would be the perfect place for one.

We have lights.  And, here, I’m going to turn the heating on. So, you just press these buttons.  It’s now got three lots of heating so it’s full whack heat.  And, oh, I can feel it already! That’s so quick!  Look at that. Not only a thing of beauty, but also brilliant engineering. And it actually works!  And it’s running on a solar………This is brilliant”. Sarah Beeny, Herschel Halo installed at Stokeford Studios.