The following items illustrate some of the different ideas I am contemplating or developing.

Maquette for garden sculpture ‘Energies’

This is a small model made with brass but intended to be developed into a much larger metallic structure that will have the resilience to survive in an external setting. The conical base should surely be of a more natural material such as stone and needs to appear as if it is being driven out of the ground by the same energies that are bursting forth out of it.

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A Reflection upon Human Development (Sleeping Child)

Though we live and behave as if our own species is hugely superior to the rest of the natural world upon which we depend for our survival, we might more realistically be seen as one of the youngest, most foolish and selfishly destructive creatures that inhabit the earth.

This work is intended to represent examples of the just born, still sleeping children of present humanity, all grasping upwards to some unseen and unknown, imagined advantage – a mother? the sun? nutrition? – while simultaneously attempting to ensure that their colleagues are defeated in their own quest to reach toward the goal above.

 

Life and Death

Mankind’s use of the square edged cross in both the East and West greatly predates Christianity in which, along with other religions, I have no interest of faith whatsoever.

The motif of this curved edged cross has repeatedly appeared in my imaginations over many years and I interpret this as a representation of the relationship between the life of symbolic mankind standing, arms outstretched and, (with unavoidable undertones of a gravestone), the ever present alternative of death.

The spherical shapes convey the implication of gonads of either gender, these giving birth to brash young  tendrils that lend support to the source of their life while also threatening to strangle and overwhelm the  life and death that predates their own existence.

 

Light bulb mobiles

I have found an interest – if not almost a fascination – with light bulbs although as yet, I have not found quite how I would like to incorporate these into some art.  Meanwhile, I have made large variety of mobiles which are visually enjoyable not only for the endless reflections they generate in a source of light but the meditative dance of their movements in anything other than still air.