my inspiration comes from many sources but mostly found natural objects such as broken seashells and pebbles, very much following in the footsteps of Moore and Hepworth. I also take inspiration from other things I see such as flowers, buds, standing stones; And other artists both modernist and contemporary such as Arp, Brancusi.

I originally developed maquettes using plaster but found that too slow and cumbersome and discovered Clayette a non-drying sculptors modelling clay that gives me flexibility to develop my own form and "units of form" (after Arp) and combine them together.

More recently taking inspiration from Michelangelo's flexible carving approach Ive made clayette copies of my starting blocks and then carved away the Clayette to make a maquette. If the end form isn't what I intended I adapt the modelling process or start again. This approach is often described as "thinking in the block" and is a flexible interpretation of the truth to material principles.