The brief from Paul Brown, the designer, was that a frieze be made based on Titian's painting. The depth had to be no more than 15cm so that it would fit into a recess above a doorway.

The frieze had numerous sculpted figures that needed to be fairly detailed

As we were carving from such a thin block of polystyrene, we had to be very careful that the finished frieze didn't look too flat and gave the illusion of depth which meant a painstaking process of polysryrene sculpting had to take place

Bit by bit the polystyrene is carved away taking into account that it is only 15cm deep

The frieze prior to a protective layer of texture

The finished polystyrene carved frieze fitted into the recess above the doorway on stage

A polystyrene carved frieze for the same production based on Titian's painting Danae