Member since Friday 28th Oct, 2011
On leaving school I became apprenticed as a diamond mounter. After two years I decided I wanted to study art. I studied at Ealing School of Art in west London for five years. Two years basic and three graphic. During my last two years in graphic art, I specialize in illustration of animals, and spent two days a week sketching at London Zoo, and I am now a fellow of the Zoological Society of London.
On leaving art school I returned to diamond mounting, also doing jewellery design, and carving wax models for casting into precious metals. I painted in my spare time. I now paint and sculpt full time, when I am not out on my pony, and teach drawing, painting and sculpture (modelling). My main areas of work, currently, are in portraiture, animals and human, sculpted, painted or drawn in pencil, and making wax models for lost wax casting for the precious metal trade. I have won awards from the Goldsmiths' Craft Council for sculptures (modelling).
My sculptures and paintings are done with very fine detail, minutely observed, which I believe is the only way to capture the essence of life. I have lived with many animals in the past, including cats, dogs and horses. My current managerie consists of cats, ferrets and a Welsh cob pony, and it is this close association with animals which informs my work.
My areas of work in sculpture are commissions from the precious metal trade, and private commissions for animal and human portraits. My paintings are done either to commission, or as inspiration takes me. I have recently applied my hand to abstract painting.
