United Kingdom, -1961
I grew up in the northern English countryside. Artist parents brought me up being encouraged to observe everything around. Living surrounded by hills I was always curious to see what was on the other side, and beyond those, further horizons, continually stimulating discovery. Though I work prevalently in the abstract, curiosity towards the nature’s phenomenons is an incessant stimulus.
I studied art at Manchester, the London College of Printing, and the Royal College of Art. Concluding my studies I worked for periods in Italy and Norway, returning to the UK to make and exhibit my work, and tutoring in Art & Design colleges. In 1991 I joined the staff at Manchester Metropolitan University, as Ceramics Lecturer in the dept. of 3-D Design. Yet in ’93 I decided to leave to join my companion in Italy. Establishing family and studio I began working and exhibiting in Italy. Since then I have participated in numerous national and international exhibitions and competitions in Italy and abroad, being awarded various prizes. My work is present in contemporary art museums and public collections and I have also realised commissions for both organisations as well as private clients.
Certain themes and fascinations run through my exploration emerging in varying manners in the works in different periods in relation to both cumulative experiences and immediate stimuli of a given moment.
My sculptural work is mainly in the abstract yet I’m inspired by constant observation, drawing and painting of the natural world and it’s phenomenons. I search to distill essences.
Realising that words and ideas carry differing, even opposing significances I began working with geometric anamorphisms to capture the idea of hidden dualities or even multiple interpretations. So when seen from differing angles the work takes on a distinct aspect, yet as the viewer moves around, it metamorphosises into an opposing form. A constant alternation of order and chaos.
As an observer is required to physically change their point of view, a kinetic element has also entered into play, in which, in instances I create a rotating work whose elements crystallise and dissolve continuously.
Other lines explore spiralling growth or fan-like expansive movements and the interaction of apparent solid and void, contrasting external surfaces with contained and revealed internal colour.