I was born in London in 1976 but moved to the south of France with my wife and three children in 2009.
I have made art ever since I was at school where I met the inspirational ceramicist Gordon Baldwin. I then went on to study sculpture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
I wanted to be an artist since I was a teenager and I have always taken inspiration from a poem by Jean Arp that concerns the human process of creating art. It has been, and continues to be, a poetic and concise inspiration wherever I am.
He who tries to bring down a cloud by
shooting at it with arrows, will use his
arrows in vain. Many sculptors resemble
such strange figures.
What one should do is this: One should
charm the cloud by fiddling on a drum
or drumming on a violin. Before long,
the cloud will descend, frolic on the
ground and, filled with self confidence,
turn into stone.
That's how with a wave of his hand the
sculptor creates his most beautiful
sculpture.