England to Cyprus and back again. This site shows a selection of sculpture and drawings made in England and Cyprus. As artist-in-residence/tutor at the Cyprus College of Art and currently as a practicing artist living in Folkestone in Kent. When I arrived in Cyprus, late September 2007, I was principally a stone carver and a maker of measured life drawing that informed my carving. Initially I was excited by the great variety of freely available stone in Cyprus, limestones and grey/green serpentanite. Now some four years on I am still working with stone but also with found objects, timber, twigs, kebab sticks, colour and oil pastel. The main change has been the variety of materials that I now use to make sculpture. My drawing has also changed from painstakingly detailed work as an illustrator through to measured observational drawing from the life model to the more instinctive oil pastels. I use them as stubs, almost my fingers...it feels somewhat like carving in colour. More often than not, they are derived from mythology, ancient archaeology, dreams and increasingly day to day events, meetings and places. This is very evident in the oil pastels produced during 2009/11. Recently I have progressed with the use of scrap wood, lolly sticks, kebab sticks and glue gun to making a series of birds, adding plaster to the mix and colour/stains. It feels as if I have gone full circle with this new work. As a child I began drawing seriously when I developed an interest in birds and the wildlife all around me, I would study them and draw them as realistically as I could. These new birds are different, they attempt to capture the spirit of the species without sentiment, they are rough and sculptural not detailed or illustrative. |  Three Graces. Grey Serpentanite and Self Sacrifice. Found timber, paint and Praying Mantis.  Elysian Fields |
