When I was young I experimented with acrylics and oils on various materials such as wood, carpet, and found objects in addition to canvas. Searching to find a voice for my ideas on life, and art I found that the immediacy of art photography at first to be more interesting.
I have spent most of my life creating 3D environments for clients: designing and fabricating displays, exhibits, retail, museum and corporate spaces as an industrial designer.
As I have toured many of the great museums and galleries of the US, France, Italy and Great Britain studying sculpture, I find myself drawn instinctively to pieces that explore the human form and their interaction with the world around them.
I take much of my inspiration from ancient works. It fascinates me how things have changed so little throughout human history with regards to the technologies of figurative sculpture. I work in much the same materials and methods that were used since the first cave dweller squeezed a ball of clay into a human form thousands of years ago.
You will find my work inspired (re: borrowed) from many of the beautiful but unsung works of sculptural detail that might be found as an emblem on an urn, a freeze on an ancient building, or a Roman Sun god from the ancient spa that is Bath.
My work is primarily done in ceramic clay. The very act of creation puts me in touch with the millennia of artists who came before, searching to convey a story, or emotion in the posture, or the tilt of of subject’s head.