Human Form...
Creating work for this exhibition has required me to learn a new way of looking at my raw material, to see human form is not something I have trained my eye to do. I wonder if my struggle was because my raw material holds memory only of the landscape and buildings from which it came. However, holding in my minds eye the atmosphere I wanted to evoke with the finished pieces helped me to loosely visualise the ghost of these figures – these are the only three I found, maybe the population of my empty landscapes will start to appear now I have started to find my 'eye' or perhaps not!
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Guest Maker at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen -
see some of my newest work in this focus exhibition at the Devon Guild in Bovey Tracey, Devon. On until 7th November 2018. 
A bit of blue!
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In the Forge...
In 2010 my studio was a derelict building. Over the last eight years I have slowly renovated it, laying floors, cleaning and insulating the interior to provide myself with a (nearly!) comfortable workspace. As my needs as an artist have changed, and following the evolution of my work from Blacksmith to Artist, the forge interior has also had to evolve and adapt. 2018 has seen me building a partition wall to divide my workspace– half metalworking shop for the early stages of picture making – and half exhibition and studio space so as to have metal landscapes permanently on display as well as works in progress. Visitors to my studio are welcome by prior arrangement.
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'I am leaning on the gate, and suddenly it is as though I had all day to do that and nothing else, or anything else, to stare at butterflies, at clouds. But it is not so, it is the attitude of leaning on the gate, familiar and easy, that induces the idle mood, looking out upon the passing world.'
from Apple Acre by Adrian Bell.
from Apple Acre by Adrian Bell.