I was lucky enough to start carving wood and stone at Bryanston school, Dorset, England with Don Potter in 1970 and managed to impress the art critics of the Times and the International Herald Tribune with a “Nativity” in wood that I exhibited at the Fieldborne Gallery in 1978.
When I came to France in 1981 the Fondation Paul Ricard chose my rose- alabaster “Horse’s head” for their exhibition entitled “Les cinquante meilleurs sculpteurs” at Bandol; the work was then bought by the French Ministère de la Culture.
In 1982 I showed the very powerful “G-force man” at the Salon de Jeune expression at the Grand Palais. The 1980’s and 1990’s were spent carving wood and stone and learning about bronze-casting. Artist friends and I put together some interesting exhibitions of wood and stone sculptures for the “Culture au grand jour” all over the Haute Vienne from 1993-8.
I also restored wood carvings and altarpieces both in France and Spain.
Then came the great storm in 1999 when I was very nearly buried alive trying to save my sculptures and my studio. The powerful series in polystyrene called “The Survivors “dates from this time. “Cyber surfer”, “Falling man” and the “Man swimming in Space” were part of another installation which momentarily transformed the magnificent, renaissance interior of the Mairie de Poitiers as you can see from the photograghs on the site.
My bronze sculptures were exhibited at the Artclub gallery on the rue de Rivoli in Paris and the Alwyn gallery in Tunbridge Wells from 2000-2003 and were bought by overseas collectors.
In 2005 the “Invisible Woman” started to appear in public. She is 2m 50cms high made of plexiglass and fine galvanised wire-mesh which helps her catch light in a most attractive way. She received thousands of votes and a sculpture prize at the Salon des artistes de la Mairie de Paris and has inspired a series of creations about which I will talk about in the “projects” section of this website. There is a lot more work to come so please visit the site and get in touch.