I worked as a commercial sculptor since 1980 after leaving Brighton art college with a degree in 3D Mixed Media, in areas as diverse as national museums and heritage, theatre, fine art fabrication for artists, military regalia, film and display. Alongside the commercial life I have always continued my own practice. 

My imagery comes largely from my (I'm told often dark) imagination, fed by my love of social history, mythology and folklore. The work celebrates our infinitely diverse and idiosyncratic shared humanity; eccentricities, theatricality, our attitudes to mortality, beliefs and our relationships with the natural world. Storytelling is central.  

The ongoing Dance Macabre series are sculptural responses to the popular medieval  "Dance of Death" wall paintings, depicting an ever growing procession of motley characters on an inevitable road.

The Lovely Rats series (using that most precious of metals, gold) aims to subvert or at least challenge the deeply rooted antipathy to a species that humans have had a close and often uneasy relationship with down the centuries. They are an elegy to many departed companions.

 For the past two years I have been creating intricate hybrid mixed media sculptures... trying to allow the making process to be as intuitive and experimental as possible.... letting the form take shape without a preconceived visualisation. I combine ceramic forms with different materials that I twist, wind and weave to create small shrines and sanctuaries....quiet symbolic spaces of retreat and reflection. Also a series of sentinel figures, enigmatic guardians of our threatened woodlands.

The puppets reflect another but sometimes overlapping preoccupation ... a love of theatricality and magic. Creating characters that can can interacted with. Again, it's about storytelling.