Meantime Sculpture

I have been working with stone since 1987, gaining experience first in a commercial and industrial environment and then later, for 10 years, as a stonecarver engaged with prestigious heritage restoration work at York Minster. However, the background to my work is rooted in Fine-Art having studied at St Martin’s School of Art for a BA Hons 1977-80 and then later for an MA at Leeds Metropolitan University 1998–2000. My practice has therefore developed as, and been enhanced by, the combination of my extensive experience in the stone industry and by my art school training. Consequently, I enjoy a wide variety of work including fine-art stone-carving, public art, letter-cutting, designing and making bespoke memorials and working on specific individual commissions. I have always been fascinated by the actual creative process itself and by the transformations that are made along the way regarding the physical appearance of the material, the structure of the concept, and by the re-interpretation and re-appropriation of images and/or contexts in order to present new meanings or questions. These key background elements have always provided a strong direction to my approach to practice and continue to inform my fine-art thinking and preparations for current sculptural proposals. My experience and training and the broad nature of my work to date has taught me to seek out the most fluent ways to interpret a wide range of subject matter. I sincerely hope that the work that I intend to do in the future will continue to explore this diversity of issues and emotions through an equally broad variety of visual solutions and genres.