“I had an epiphany last year when I suddenly realised that I was creating stone sculptures in my drawings... and that I really should be exploring real sculpture... with real stone. It’s already given me an invaluable insight into the genius of past sculptors from primitive ‘stone age’ carvers to the renaissance…”

“I first fell in love with sculpting when I visited Musée Rodin in Paris in 2019. I was mesmerised by the manipulation of form and material to capture the intricacies of human life and emotion…”

“It is only of late that I have grasped why it has always been so important to me: in fact when I mould, sculpt or shape a material, whether it be clay, stone, felt, glass or whichever, I become energetically and emotionally balanced…”

“I love the escapism you get when creating something. I have been creative since I was a child, always making things…”

I was fascinated by how a sculpture could stop me in my tracks and make me physically move around it whilst the surroundings faded into the background…

“Art tells a story. It tells a story of hope, of suffering, of sadness, of happiness. All my art tells a story. The beauty of art is that it lives on long after you die…”

“In 2015 I took a life gamble and applied to the Florence Academy of Art. I was accepted so I moved to Florence, Italy to start learning how to sculpt the figure…”

“I’ve been working with my hands everyday for the last 15 years and have always enjoyed creating things, so making sculptures just seemed like an inevitable path to explore…”

“After my first term at TBSSS I was hooked and booked in for each term after that…”

“I was drawn to sculpting as a form of tactile, creative expression…”