Artworks
Making matters
While I am partial to a chat, I am also preoccupied with how to communicate through art. The way that shapes, textures and marks can be languages to observe and share what words can’t always express. This is where I both lose and find myself.
My sculptures are made for touching. Once that connection is made it’s like a circuit is completed. Things stir and can be held in unknown places. It’s an intimate and personal experience that’s different for everyone; take it as you find it.
As a kid I drew flowers, my family, pets - my chicken Penny was a favourite. In life drawing classes at art school I used charcoal to trace the undulations of the body, simplifying details to create abstract landscapes I wanted to shrink and climb into. I began carving plaster to realise these abstract organic forms, which extended into limestone sculptures.
And at this criritcal moment, life threw a curveball. A Big Job offer came along, winked and lured me in. I got caught up in feeling grown up, secure, on a path. I blinked, and decades had past but the ache in my hands to make got louder and louder. A few years ago, I started practicing again. Nature is my starting point, both the rural landscape that’s now my home, and human nature, how we relate to ourselves and each other.
I make art in my garden studio and do client work in my home office but the two practices are intertwined. They feed one another while figuring out one shared goal: how to make better connections.
Here I am sharing artworks that span many years, as regardless of time, each piece begets the next. Some are complete, some are in development. Life is a work in progress; why not show art that is in transition, offering up different paths that it could take to find its completion. To close the circuit for its beholder.
I always welcome feedback and some art works are for sale, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.