tomhendo

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.