“I I’ve always been a maker. In school, the scouts, college, teaching and eventually my own studio it has been central to what I do and who I am.

Family trips to castles and ancient monuments fed my interest in architecture and like most kids, I was fascinated by ancient and exotic cultures and their rituals. These interests remain.

My initial training as a cabinet-maker was steeped in the Arts and Crafts tradition and later the Bauhaus and Modernism.

It is easy to see the design influence in the way I work along with the heritage of modernist simplification of forms.

Although purely sculptural, I see my work remaining rooted in the vessel tradition, both in its materiality, construction and the spatial sense of the completed pieces.

My Geometric pieces were the initial transition from sculptural but functional containers and vessels, which were often architecturally inspired. Moving away from the functional aspect allowed a freedom to focus entirely on the interaction of the forms themselves.