"Shadowplay" Sculpture

My sculpture is inspired by complex patterns and structures in nature. Currently my main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes trees form against the sky at different times of the year. Often it is the empty spaces and gaps I am looking for just as much as the leaves and branches themselves, an aesthetic concept known in Japanese culture as ‘Ma’ which is akin to the silences between the notes in music. My sculpture is inspired by complex patterns and structures in nature. Currently my main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes trees form against the sky at different times of the year. Often it is the empty spaces and gaps I am looking for just as much as the leaves and branches themselves, an aesthetic concept known in Japanese culture as ‘Ma’ which is akin to the silences between the notes in music. The Japanese also have a poetic word for the interplay of light and leaves breaking through a canopy and dancing across the forest floor in beautiful patterns: ’Komorebi’.

My background in graphic design influences my exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which I develop organic, abstract and figurative sculpture. I create intricate drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten weathering steel, aluminium, copper, brass and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.

I love trees, always have. As a child I loved to climb trees, hiding in the leafy canopy, gaining a new perspective on the world.
Nowadays my feet are firmly planted on the ground, but there’s nothing I like more than to wander through the woods in search of calmness, magic and inspiration. The soft rustle of wind through leaves, the play of light on the woodland floor, the feeling of being hidden yet safe. From the mighty oak to the ethereal silver birch, from springtime to winter, my head and heart always find solace in the woods.