Artist Statement

I graduated from Chelsea School of Art in 1994.  I was enrolled on the Fine Art Painting Degree but much of my time was spent developing multi media projects, using video, photography, performance, installation and sculptural techniques. After graduation I was involved in various creative projects employing many of these art forms.

In 2001 I taught myself to work with stone.  My early figurative relief carvings gradually gave way to more developed abstract pieces.  It is through this work, that I have fully found a means of expressing myself both conceptually and physically.

My approach to my work could be described as ‘automatic’. I have a rough idea for a work and let it happen, seeing what I can make the stone do, listening and feeling my way to the creation that exists in the back of my mind. Giving a heavy, solid thing my aesthetics without disturbing its inherent beauty, nature and energy. Sometimes I sketch and plan, at other times I just use whatever stone I have to hand and make.

I love discovering and sourcing my material, it has taken me to people and places I would otherwise not have found or thought of visiting. I hope to give the viewer or discoverer of my work the same sense of voyage, process and emotion I have felt in its creation.

I have just finished a large public art commission in Portsmouth for St James Hospital, in collaboration with Sculptor Aloysha Moeran. This project consisted of three new sculptures for the new courtyard gardens within the hospital.  I also continue to create, develop and exhibit my own stone creation.