This website
I don't have an online sales platform. I sell through just one or two galleries, currently Kellie Miller Arts in Brighton. This website is a photo album of selected work since 2000, with titles and approximate heights.
I don't have an online sales platform. I sell through just one or two galleries, currently Kellie Miller Arts in Brighton. This website is a photo album of selected work since 2000, with titles and approximate heights.
The work
I mainly create figures. I love the shapes that human bodies make and the stories they tell. Using a visual language of gesture and stance – for example, the tilt of a neck or the set of the shoulders – I try to express a state of mind or a moment in a narrative. The results can be serious, light-hearted, ambiguous, enigmatic. Ideas either come in a flash or develop over time, prompted by people-watching, conversations, perhaps a mere phrase. Contemporary dance is an influence, as are media images and of course visual art. Sometimes a title is the starting-point for a piece, in other cases the original idea couldn’t be articulated in words and the title only comes later.
My sculptures are hollow, built using thin slabs of an off-white, slightly gritty clay that I cut out, a little like dressmaking. The surfaces are decorated with layers of oxides, stains and glazes fired to 1090°C.
I mainly create figures. I love the shapes that human bodies make and the stories they tell. Using a visual language of gesture and stance – for example, the tilt of a neck or the set of the shoulders – I try to express a state of mind or a moment in a narrative. The results can be serious, light-hearted, ambiguous, enigmatic. Ideas either come in a flash or develop over time, prompted by people-watching, conversations, perhaps a mere phrase. Contemporary dance is an influence, as are media images and of course visual art. Sometimes a title is the starting-point for a piece, in other cases the original idea couldn’t be articulated in words and the title only comes later.
My sculptures are hollow, built using thin slabs of an off-white, slightly gritty clay that I cut out, a little like dressmaking. The surfaces are decorated with layers of oxides, stains and glazes fired to 1090°C.
Background
I have always been involved in creative activities. Though trained as an art teacher, I got caught up in the restaurant world, eventually opening my own restaurant in Manchester. In my forties I finally took my formal artistic training further and went to art school, then set up a studio at home. Early on I took part in a nationally touring show of humorous ceramics selected by Johnny Vegas. I have exhibited solo and in group shows, undertaken installations and many individual commissions. Highlights for me have been the installations where I have created little figures that explore and experience real environments. I am not prolific and only produce a small number of pieces at a time.
I have always been involved in creative activities. Though trained as an art teacher, I got caught up in the restaurant world, eventually opening my own restaurant in Manchester. In my forties I finally took my formal artistic training further and went to art school, then set up a studio at home. Early on I took part in a nationally touring show of humorous ceramics selected by Johnny Vegas. I have exhibited solo and in group shows, undertaken installations and many individual commissions. Highlights for me have been the installations where I have created little figures that explore and experience real environments. I am not prolific and only produce a small number of pieces at a time.