A tutor with 10 years experience teaching at West Dean on both
short and degree courses, he has recently created bespoke short
sculpture courses for the degree course at UCA, Canterbury,
Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual
Arts, UEA.
He trained at the Frink School of Sculpture after attending
Exeter and London Universities. His public works can be seen in
Lewes, Hindhead and on the South Downs at Slindon. His portrait
heads were last exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and a
posthumous head of Capability Brown was unveiled in 2016.
Describe your approach to teaching:
My approach to teaching is rigorous but fun, aiming to identify
the needs of each student; to give them a personal action plan.
Knowledge is unimportant; commitment to seeing and exploring
is.
What inspires your work?
My work is inspired by the landscape and the unforeseen, but
tends to revert to figurative interaction. Portraiture is
influenced by seeing with perception; qualities are believed to
creep into the work rather than being consciously placed there.