This may involve the whole body, part of a body or the configuration of the head alone. I generally use clay because I like its palpable quality and the way it moves so easily, like the body, like flesh. It allows me to reveal something about the surface and something beyond the surface. I sometimes use colour to convey emotion, expression or mood. My work evolves through a process of part drawing, part painting, part construction, and is cast in a variety of materials including paper, plaster, resin, reconstituted stone and bronze.

Education

1975-1979 BA (Hons.) Fine Art Sculpture, Chelsea College of Art and Design
1979-1980 Postgraduate Studies, City & Guilds of London Art School
Awards: First prize Sculpture, First prize Drawing, Madame Tussauds Sculpture Prize, Rodney Burn Drawing Prize

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 The Society of Portrait Sculptors, Cork Street, London W1
2007 A&K Wilson Gallery Ltd. at Bride Hall, Hertfordshire
2004 & 2005 Annual Exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London SW1
1981-2004 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions (1981,83,86,87,88,89,91,93,94,96,99,2001,04)
2004 A&K Wilson Gallery Ltd. at 54 The Gallery, London W1Y 7HP.
1994 Intimacy, Lamont Gallery London E2
1994 Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk
1993 Lamont Gallery , London E2
1993 Isis Gallery, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
1992 Images of Women, On Line Gallery, Southampton
1991 Jonleigh Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
1990 Summer Exhibition, Weald of Kent Preservation Society, Tenterden
1989 The Presidents Choice, Royal Academy
1989 Arts Club, Dover Street, London W1
1988 Jonleigh Gallery, Guildford, Surrey
1987 Westminster City Sculpture, Coutts & Co., London WC2
1987 Summer Exhibition, Weald of Kent Preservation Society, Tenterden
1985 Business Art Galleries, Royal Academy
1984 London Group, Royal College of Art
1984 Business Art Galleries, Royal Academy

Reviews and Publications

1983 & 1988 Royal Academy Illustrated
1983 & 1986 BBC Royal Academy Preview
1979 & 1988 Arts Review

Commissions

1981-present Private Portrait Commissions/Collections (UK, Ireland, USA)
1996-1997 Shepperton Film Studios – set design
1996 St. John the Baptist church, Middlesex – reredos
1991 Tonbridge Grammar School, Kent – commemorative sculpture
1990 Forty Hall Museum, Middlesex – relief
Guest Lectures / Education Programme
1992 National Portrait Gallery, Artists Open Studio - Weekend residency
1992 National Portrait Gallery, Summersketch (Portrait drawing)
1991 National Portrait Gallery, Summersketch (Portrait sculpture)
1990 National Portrait Gallery, Points of View
1989 National Portrait Gallery, Looking to Construct
1987 Whitechapel Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein – Sculpture and drawing
1987 National Portrait Gallery, Public Art and Private Concern