About me
As a former art student, retired company director and retail designer I have always been a creative person with wide ranging art and design interests.
I am an avid people watcher and for many years I have been life drawing and urban sketching ordinary people going about their daily lives, largely un-noticed, let alone recorded.
This has always fascinated me. What are they doing? Where are they going? Where have they been? What is going on?
As an artist looking for a new challenge I started a beginner’s pottery course at my local college in 2015 and mastered the basic skills of throwing, modelling and glazing.
In 2017 I sculpted my first clay figure, “The Grumpy Farmer”, based on one of my people drawings. My aim was to fashion in clay a caricature of that person at that moment in time, showing a “slice of life”. Since then I have created many more sculptures and I constantly see people around me that inspire future works.
My subjects depict contemporary life situations and attitudes, sometimes with humour, sometimes with pathos. I try to focus on capturing the body language in an attempt to emphasize what I think is going on. You will have your own interpretation of this. We all see things differently and for me that is what makes the observation of modern life so interesting.
As a former art student, retired company director and retail designer I have always been a creative person with wide ranging art and design interests.
I am an avid people watcher and for many years I have been life drawing and urban sketching ordinary people going about their daily lives, largely un-noticed, let alone recorded.
This has always fascinated me. What are they doing? Where are they going? Where have they been? What is going on?
As an artist looking for a new challenge I started a beginner’s pottery course at my local college in 2015 and mastered the basic skills of throwing, modelling and glazing.
In 2017 I sculpted my first clay figure, “The Grumpy Farmer”, based on one of my people drawings. My aim was to fashion in clay a caricature of that person at that moment in time, showing a “slice of life”. Since then I have created many more sculptures and I constantly see people around me that inspire future works.
My subjects depict contemporary life situations and attitudes, sometimes with humour, sometimes with pathos. I try to focus on capturing the body language in an attempt to emphasize what I think is going on. You will have your own interpretation of this. We all see things differently and for me that is what makes the observation of modern life so interesting.