sculpture and drawing

Small and large scale works for sale or commission, 
for interiors, gardens and public sites

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Biography

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Career development

• MA in Public Art from Chelsea School of Art and Design 1999- 2000

• BA (hons) Fine Art, Sculpture from the University of Northumbria  1980 - 83

• Exhibited in commercial galleries including Beaux Arts in Bath, Cadogan in Knightsbridge and Mc Hardy Sculpture Co near Tower Bridge, London.

• Have large scale public art installed in Burgess Hill, Guildford town centre, Buchan Country Park in West Sussex, Horsham Park, Old Manor Hospital in Salisbury and Warneford Hospital, Oxford

• Have been resident artist in South India twice 

• Professional member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (MRBS)

• Have completed many projects in schools including a term long project to make cement sculpture at Croydon High School in Surrey and a 10 week cross curricular project of dance, film, drawing and wire sculpture at Steyning Grammar School in West Sussex

• Have collaborated with dancers for 2 projects.  One with contemporary dancer, Kate Lawrence producing film, drawing and light sculpture for a promenade performance finally at St Catherine's Chapel, Artington, Guildford in April 2000 see web site, another with Indian dancer Anusha Ayaru for a light sculpture installation at Surrey University in 2002 (see above)

Selected and Recent Exhibitions

• Bentley Woodfair, September 2018

• Handmade at Sussex Prairies Garden, RHS partner Garden near Henfield, Sussex July 

• Horsham Artists Open Studios, Art Trail event at garden of Porch House in Horsham July 2018

• Wild about Mid Sussex, 2nd June 2018, St John's Park Burgess Hill Event featuring exotic reptiles, bees, pond creatures alongside demonstrations and workshops

• 2005 - 2018 Open studios in Horsham District two weekends in June/July each year
  

• Wandsworth Artists' Open House in October 2015  Sculpture and watercolours alongside narrative painter Angela Brittain at St. Anns Crescent, Wandsworth SW18 2NG as part of 

• Artists' Enclave at Sussex Prairies - Group of 5 very individual artists who show work together in pop up exhibition sites in the south east of England 30th and 31st August 2015.  
  

• Godinton House & Gardens Sculpture Exhibition, Godinton Lane, Ashford, Kent  TN23 3BP. www.godintonhouse.co.uk  July 25th - August 16th 2015
  

• 2012, 2013, 2014 Bentley Weald WoodFair, display and demonstration of carving in the woods.
  

• 2014 July Wests Woodfair, East Dean, West Sussex, display of waymarker and demonstration of carving.
  

• Godinton House & Gardens, Godinton Lane, Ashford, Kent  TN23 3BP. www.godintonhouse.co.uk  July 25th - August 17th 2014
  

• HORSHAM ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS exhibition at Roffey Park Institute, Forest Road, Horsham West Sussex RH12 4TB - 33 Horsham District artists exhibit in one place 17th & 18th May 2014
  

• KINGS HILL  Display of 5 head sculptures installed in prestigious office foyer of Kings Hill near West Malling in Kent through November - January 2014.
  

• 15th and 16th June  2013 Horsham Artists in Action at Sedgwick Park near Horsham, 30 local artists showed, sold work and demonstrated their skills

• 2013/14 Partners in Art run a POP UP SHOP In Swan Walk, Horsham town centre. One of 5 artists who showed new work in March, May, September 2013 and March 2014.  The artists worked in the shop throughout and talked to visitors about how they work.
  

• 2012 Summer Exhibition at Ashdown Gallery 

• 2012 & 2011 Brighton Open House stone sculptures in the garden during Brighton Festival May.  45 Preston Drove BRIGHTON.  BN1 6LA.  

• 2011 Large stone and wood carving at Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey Hampshire 

• 2007 Fanfare Gateway was displayed in the RBS Spectrum show at Abbey House Gardens, Wiltshire

• 2006 - 10 Portico Gallery, Riverhead, nr Sevenoaks, Kent.  Symbolic stone and wood head for sale. Currently 

• 2004/5 Sculpture in the Garden, Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Leicester University.   Sleeping Gothic Buddha (See Gothic Buddha page) was sited in the garden and included in the exhibition catalogue 

• 2004 March, Beyond Belief, St Mary's Church, Guildford, Surrey. 4 Man exhibition of film and large cement heads on the theme of identity

• 2003 Park Life at Egerton Park, Bexhill on sea.  see public sculpture page

• 2002 - 2003 East West Project, touring exhibition Howden Centre, West Lothian; Worthing Museum; Theatre Chipping Norton; Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells; and Capitol theatre Gallery, Horsham.  Drawings and cement maquettes made as a response to an interest in contemporary dance in England and dance and theatre in South India

• 1997 - 2004 Surrey and South East Open Studios.  Large collection of stone and wood carvings sited and shown in the artists garden and studio.  Included in catalogues produced for each event.  

• 2002 Junction 1:Flowers, at Lewis Elton Gallery and Dance department foyer for Borderlands Artists.  Work with South Indian dancer - produced light sculpture and drawings to go with dance demonstration.  Supported by Arts Council grant.  

• 2001 Summer show, Garden Gallery, Broughton Hants

• 2000 East West Heads, at the Chitraniketan Art Gallery in Trivandrum, Kerala, South India

• 1999 Down to the Sea, stone forms of fish, shells etc displayed as part of the Summer exhibition at Alpha House Gallery in Sherborne, Dorset

• 1999 Artists of Fame and Promise, carved heads displayed at Beaux Arts gallery in Bath