I am an artist/designer with many interests. Principally a sculptor, though I design and make works in a wide range of media; from locally sourced woods, in stone and bronze as well as using innovative combinations of materials.
The range of works that I design or make includes:
- - unique objects in a variety of materials from 10cms up to 4m in size
- - designed landscape spaces or features
- - climate responsive artworks i.e. pieces that sway, move, float or in some other way are designed and manufactured to respond to wind or water
- - commemorative trophies and prototypes
- - relief panels and paintings
I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1942 of English parents who had chosen to live there. I had an inspiring art teacher at Victoria College and with the help of a Societe Jersiaise Art Scholarship studied for 4yrs at the West of England College of Art, Bristol, before moving to the University of London Institute of Education and then on to a study-travel programme in Canada and the USA. I am a fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Now in my 60’s, I need to explain that much of my working life (almost 30 years of it in the Highlands of Scotland), has been spent working in education, the visual arts, as teacher, lecturer and institutional leader, together with an excursion into the management of vocational training, leading to project management work of various kinds associated with the development of what is now know as UHI Millennium Institute (www.uhi.ac.uk). This higher education institution is expected to be granted university title in the near future, becoming the long awaited University of the Highlands and Islands.
My catalogue of exhibition and commissioned works is quite modest; I have shown somewhere every decade from the “Young Contemporaries” London, in 1960, “Art in Cambridge” in 1965; the University of Sussex in 1975 and ’76; Artspace, Aberdeen in 1981, the Royal West of England Academy in 1989; the Highland Open in 1990, the Royal Scottish Academy in 1990, 1992 and 2009, the Highland Festival in 1996; the Jersey Arts Centre in 2005.
I participated in Highland Open Studios in 2007 and 2008 and will be listed in the 2010 HOS Directory.
My catalogue of exhibition and commissioned work includes:
Young Contemporaries London 1960 – painting
Input to the restoration of carvings at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ’61-‘65
Arnolfini Gallery Bristol 1961 - painting
Constructed the Lions of St.Marks for the City of Bath Festival 1962
Royal Society of British Artists, London 1962 - painting
Art in Cambridge 1965 - sculpture
Bene’t Gallery Cambridge 1966 – solo exhibition of mixed artworks
Selective Eye gallery, Jersey 1967 – mobile for opening exhibition
Sculptural Headland, Island of Brecqhou 1966/68
Play areas for Grands Vaux School & St Helier Nursery, Jersey 1966
Pavilions in the Parks, Forestdale Croydon 1969 – mixed media
Madonna & Child for Convent FCJ Jersey 1971 – twice life size
Stockwell College of Education, lake sculpture 1971
Play area (design and model) for Entoto School Addis Adaba 1973
Topham Trophy, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London 1973 – competition entry
Relief panel for Peterborough Law Courts 1974
Relief panels for Baker-Perkins HQ Peterborough 1974
‘Form in the Making’ film showings, Tate Gallery, London during the mid ‘70s
University of Sussex ‘moatfloat’ 1975
University of Sussex ‘Artist in Residence’ 1976 – mixed media
Stockwell College of Education, Bromley 1976 – mixed media
Artspace, Aberdeen 1981 - sculpture
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 1989 - sculpture
The Highland Open, Inverness 1990 - sculpture
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1990, 1992 - sculpture
Risen Christ for St Luke’s Church, Jersey 1991 - lifesize
The Highland Festival, Inverness 1996 - sculpture
Jersey Art Centre 2005 - sculpture
Restoration work at the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Inverness 2006
Highland Open Studios 2007 and 2008 – mixed media
Royal Scottish Academy, Spring show – sculpture 2009
Castle Stuart Golf, Inverness, bronze panel for the Clubhouse, 2009
Awards
Societe Jersiaise Barreau Arts Scholar 1959-1962
Jersey Tobacco Distributors Arts Scholar 1967
Artist in Residence, University of Sussex 1976
I am a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
Fuller information follows in 'about my artwork'.