About
I had a 28-year career in publishing, and I'd been sculpting at evening class for about ten years. I thought I needed to try to go a bit deeper, so in 1988 or '89 (can't remember which now) I decided to take some time off, and hired a studio in London to try sculpture full-time. I moved to Bristol in 1991, and took a BA Hons in Fine Art at The University of the West of England, graduating in 1995. After that I worked at Limbs and Things, a medical modelling company, trained to teach computing, but ended up at a second-hand bookseller, looking after antiquarian books. I am now retired, and looking forward to time for making more art. I had a space at The Bristol Sculpture Shed - part of Artspace, and later at its reincarnation at Spike Island, although now I work from my home studio. This site shows some of the sculpture I've made over the years.
My sculpture is varied as I make both figurative and abstract sculptures. Some of the more overtly figurative sculpture tends towards the figure in the moment of transition from one part of a movement to another, while trying to reflect both the beginning and the end of the movement. However I am very influenced by Cycladic figurative art which I find mysterious and spiritual. It also has a stillness which I find moving. So in direct contradiction to what I have just said, sometimes I try to incorporate this stillness into my figures. Otherwise, I use the very simple shape of the heads as a departure point for some of my abstract sculptures. I have painted a little, and may try to develop this.
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