I am predominantly a social sculptor but I enjoy sketching, painting, print & felt making for pleasure. This archive is essentially just a record of some of the work I have enjoyed making over the years and spans landscape, portrait, life, still life and abstract work.

For much of my early career I supplemented my income modelling for life classes which I found induced a strange dream-like state of imagination which inspired a series of works; three paintings & an artist’s book of photographs and poems.

Two of the paintings sold at exhibition and sadly I don’t have a record of one of them. It should also be remembered that the book was published long before the creation of photoediting software and the images were made by projecting slides over the body.

In 1993 I created an art installation titled “There are angels amongst us” on Trout Island in Wolvercote funded by the Arts Council for Oxfordshire ArtsWeek that used fire to draw in three dimensions in space. The work was so successful it was re-commissioned multiple times around the country and I went on to create further commissions for specific events including the Campus Festival in Devon. However I have never been an artist driven by medium, rather I select the materials to suit the message, so when I realised the attraction was becoming merely spectacle I stopped creating these works and see the later ones as commercial projects only.

Wax has been a material that I have returned to again and again; for it’s delicacy yet solidity, malleability, fragility and power to give light by through vaporising. After university I continued to work with wax for several years creating artworks for exhibition, commissions & in residencies.

Highlights included the Schadenfreude exhibition at Slaughterhouse London, Freud’s Cafe residency in Oxford & nationally touring works commissioned for the EOS Ensemble that gradually burnt and changed form with each performance.

One of two works from my degree show that earned me the Dean’s Prize for Best Art Student. Constructed from bamboo, plaster & scrim with a wax coating the giant over-ripe fruit-like form belched steam from a hidden boiler within.

Two very different experiments in concept sculpture from the early part of my final year at Kingston University. The ephemeral heart-shaped smoke ring appearing magically through the gallery wall and the industrial bellows & panel beaten hollow heart, closed in a vacuum such that pumping would crush the chamber inward.

The scale of this work was outstanding, creating a 2m wide sheet steel fountain bowl that ran oil rather than water keeping the steel from rusting. Sadly my mother had a serious accident at the time of my degree show and I only ever got the one photograph of the fountain in operation but the concept slides show very early CAD work.

An experiment in Super8 film making capturing the futility of protesting against inner London traffic pollution by hurling fresh flowers at vehicles going through the Euston underpass.

A project created for a collaborative show with students at Ruskin College, University of Oxford, in the second year of my degree. The works used the old dial phone handsets that were being replaced across the country by BT at the time and had sound recordings or used the ring or dial tones to create the works: Pillow Talk, Crossed lines & Emergency. TES reported on the project which had been set up by myself.

During my second year on BA Hons Fine Art Sculpture at Kingston I explored the concept of ready-mades and my rather quirky sense of humour enjoyed the surreal juxtaposition of artificially combined objects.

I started to work with wax over modroc body casting to alter & resurface the body. For these pieces I was trying to express the body’s ability to cope with the battering of life like a the smoothing of a pebble by the ocean’s continuous bombardment. Something beautiful evolves from the exposure to harsh reality.

My first body casting; I was fascinated by George Segal’s work and created this piece about my own experiences of vulnerability & entrapment during my first year on my BA at Kingston University.

Induction project on my degree; I made fake flowers using cling film & wire as the ultimate plastic fantastic fairyland world, mocking man’s attempts to preserve nature.

Explorations of 3D work on Foundation year that was awarded the annual student prize.

Self-portrait study in Foundation year.

Foundation year studies of the Abingdon to Oxford buses in 2D & 3D.

I enjoy making original craft or interior design & textile products for my own home, as gifts and sometimes for commissions. This is not my main area of work but I do still occasionally undertake projects.