Preferred Style:
Representational, Figurative
Describe your early memories of your emerging talent as an artist?:
Being asked to paint a watercolour of a yacht and a show jumping horse in Maryland USA. Both paintings turned out fine and at the age of 16 I suddenly realized that art was my future.
Other influences:
Helenistic and Roman Sculpture. Spending time and studying with influential artists.
Admired Artists:
Robert Graham, Euan Uglow, Drew Struzan, Michael Angelo, Rodin, Degas, Richard MacDonald
Role of figurative art:
Figurative sculpture has the power to move and teach us about ourselves.
Favorite Gallery:
Louvre, Metropolitan, New York.
Other Interests:
Writing, Contemporary Dance,Theatre, Film and Nature
A one line summation of your relationship to art:
Art is in everything we see