I left school at 16 and worked as a time-served apprentice in printing, bookbinding & photography. The 1970’s was at the cusp of new technologies which superseded the original craft-based methods.

My first degree was in Fine Art: Sculpture, at Leicester Polytechnic. Here I had my first experience of working with molten glass direct from the furnace.  I also acquired many transferable craft skills which I subsequently applied professionally in stone carving, mould-making & casting, ceramics, green wood-work & timber framing, building maintenance & restoration, including leading the design team for two Art Deco cinema restorations.

​As a co-founder of ‘Hand to Hand Arts’, an artist-led enterprise, I have been active in leading programmes in museum education (at the V&A and the Barbican Gallery), college, school and community settings.
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Major influences on my working practice have been residencies at the Tengenenge Sculptors Community, Zimbabwe in 1992, and the Shiro Oni Studios, Japan in 2017. 

Recent Awards & Exhibitions

Stanislav Libensky Award; Selected participant, Novoměstská Radnice Prague
September 2019
North Lands Creative Arts; Emergent maker award/residency August 2019
Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Award; runner up Spring 2019
AIR Group Exhibition; Shiro Oni Studios Onishi Gunma Pref. May 2017
AIR Group Exhibition; Be-Kyoto Gallery Kyoto May 2017 East West AIR award Kyoto May 2017
EWAAC Group Show; Best in Category: Sculpture, Pall Mall Gallery London November 2016