Artist’s Statement

My work is mainly figurative as it is through the figure that I feel I can express strength,

rhythm and movement. It is through the figure that I know I can communicate the strength

of living, captured in everyday movements.

What was it that drew me to sculpture? It was the concept of working in the round and

seeing a finished piece from such a variety of viewpoints. There was also the discovery of

having the piece evolve before your eyes.

And it is this very development that led me into “Print Making”. Print making by its nature is

a very tactile process, and the work that emerges is quite different from the original

concept, it reveals itself as the work develops in the print making process.

I have for many years worked in print in my own studio. On joining the Graphic Studio I

found a new way to express my vision of life and learn from the expertise and direction of

fellow members.

In recent times I have come to admire Matisse’s philosophy of work, that the viewer should

leave the work with perhaps an enriched sense of life.