I began to model in 2006 at Chipstead Craft Studios with Clive Oates. Subsequently, I have attended master-classes in portrait sculpture with Jon Edgar, with Suzie Zamit, and with Etienne Millner. In 2013 I completed a Certificate Course at the Art Academy where I focused on learning the basic techniques I lacked and the critiques and teaching I needed.
My models start life in clay, Newplast or wax and are then fired or moulded for editions to be cast in bronze-resins or bronze. I occasionally work in wire.
I often use musicians as my subjects because, while immersed in their music, they become the conduit for powerful expressions of feeling. In addition I try to portray the intense focus of sportsmen as they strive to be the best in their field.
I have had a number of commissions and have work in collections in the UK, the US and on the Continent.
Exhibitions
2019 | Ightham Mote, Kent with East Surrey Sculptors | |
2018 | Kent Painters' Group, Sevenoaks | |
2017 | RHS Wisley, Surrey with Surrey Sculpture Society | |
Ightham Mote, Kent with East Surrey Sculptors | ||
2016 | Chelsea Art Society, London | |
Kent Painters' Group, Sevenoaks | ||
2015 | Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, Pall Mall, London | |
Ightham Mote, Kent with East Surrey Sculptors | ||
2014 | Greenstede Gallery, Surrey with East Surrey Sculptors | |
2013 | Fulham Palace, London with Surrey Sculpture Society | |
Guildford Cathedral, with Surrey Sculpture Society | ||
Art Academy Graduate Show, London | ||
Ightham Mote, Kent with East Surrey Sculptors | ||
2012 | Art in Action, Oxfordshire | |
G-Live Guildford, with Surrey Sculpture Society | ||
2011 | Pashley Manor, East Sussex | |
2010 | Art Loco Gallery, Ticehurst, East Sussex |