I’m a multidisciplinary artist working in stone, steel, collage, found objects and occasionally intaglio and relief printing.

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In my sculptural practice I'm interested in stories, gods and monsters, and everything in-between. My sculptures are, boisterous, full of mischief, dragged kicking and screaming from my imagination. There’s a story lurking behind each work

 

I first capture them on paper, then release them in stone, sometimes utilising other materials. I'm interested in the form, hidden in the block, not in the beauty of the stone itself. Occasionally I include steel, colour and other materials to convey elements where appropriate.

 

Drawings and models are important but are means to an end, the realisation of the piece really happens towards the end of the journey; it evolves during the process. I never replicate an idea from a model or drawing directly.

 

My assemblages and collage are a departure from my sculpture in many ways. Themes involve political, ecological socio-economic discourse and of course myths and legends

 

I always make by hand, I cut out, glue, paint and reassemble. The finished works are never digital, or AI generated. I enjoy the physical process of finding, selecting, discarding and combining images and materials from many sources. I prefer to handle the physical, as with my sculpture.

 

I’m new to exhibiting and still in the early stages of building a body of work.

 

I studied Spatial Design at Leeds School of Art, then, many years later stone carving at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where, I've recently started passing on my skills as a technician/tutor, a joyful full-circle moment.