NEW SEASON: FORTHCOMING EVENTS
The shape of 2026 is beginning to emerge. The first exhibition is open now; others will follow in the coming weeks. See below for dates and details. Exciting!
Pashley Manor is now open for the season, beginning with their famous tulip festival. The weather has hurried them along this year – the tulips are magnificent at the moment, but may not last to the end, so if you’re thinking of visiting, don’t delay! I’m very pleased with the locations of the pieces I have there this year, especially the startling Centipede on wood, and sales are already very promising.
DELAMORE ARTS 2026
Delamore is ALWAYS brilliant – do visit if you can.
A selection of my pieces there this year is shown below – I’m delighted with the settings of all of them. Well done Delamore!
The wonderful Tithe Barn in Lenham village is again hosting the very successful Pilgrims Way Artists’ Summer Exhibition, on the dates shown. I have enjoyed being a guest sculptor for several years, now. Varied paintings of very high quality, and interesting and imaginative sculptures.
Located at: The Artful Gallery, Whitehanger, Marley Lane, Haslemere in Surrey, GU27 3PY. This is an extensive garden which each year hosts a number of carefully-selected guest sculptors and artists. This will be my first appearance in this event, which runs from 6th to 21st June.
Lots of new work!
I have been having a little explosion of creativity: THREE new pieces in the last month. At the moment I can only share this one with you:
I have borrowed some of the techniques developed for the hop bine sculptures, but adjusted for the different shape and arrangement of the vine leaves; and the grapes represent a significant new technique, using new doming and beating tools I have had specially made. I’m absolutely delighted with the result. The price is still to be decided.
An amazing day last month delivering my big stag to his new home, and what a perfect setting it is!! Fourteen hours for the round trip, and we might have got a few funny looks as we made our way up the motorway. Absolute joy as my clients are thrilled and I couldn’t have picked a better backdrop to show him off to his handsome best. We even managed to get him installed while keeping it all a surprise for the wife as it’s her copper wedding anniversary gift.
Huge thanks to my Dad for keeping me company on the long drive and the helping hands installing.
A recent commission: many of you will be aware I’m a daft basset owner. (Not sure whether ‘daft’ refers to the dogs or to me.) There are basset groups all over the country, and two members of the Kent Basset Waddle group asked me to create a sculpture portrait of their two. This is the result:
I know both dogs well, having taken part in waddles with them previously, but I was working mainly from the photographs shown.
My Basset Heart was a comission, but the subject is dear to my own heart (having two) and I shall be happy to make more for any more mad Basset people out there.
The heart is 40cm across, and it is priced at £145.
I make sculptures of animals, plants and occasionally other things, from recycled copper: old hot-water cylinders for sheet which is shaped into butterfly wings and elephant’s flanks, pipe of different thicknesses for legs and stems, wire for whiskers and manes and antennae. Copper never rusts, and can be shaped by beating and coloured by heating and quenching. Where pieces are coloured, I lacquer them so that the colour is fixed. The sculptures will therefore be fine outdoors or inside. Do please roam through my website and see if any of the work attracts you. In twenty-two years of making, there is a lot to see. I suggest you start at the Full Gallery, but there is also a menu to the other pages.
Do bookmark this site and pop back often for all the latest news and new work.
My bird feeders, designed to complement the water-lily birdbath. I have made three sizes: the largest, seen in the main picture above, is a mad extravagance and needs a large garden space. Also shown is the smallest and simplest, with a close-up detail showing the flower. There are more pictures in the ‘Pond and Garden’ subject gallery.
Do visit the MAIN GALLERY page – I love how well it works. I have recently added several new collections of photographs. You can click on any image to see information about the price and sizes, and click AGAIN to see a maximum-resolution image.
If you’re looking for anything in particular, there is a SEARCH button on the menu.
Gold Medal!!! What an honour to be part of this beautiful stand by Lou and Steven Edney from The No Name Nursery. Find more about them HERE.
I love how the planting and sculpture enhance each other and tell a story. My elephant is emerging through the varied shapes of their foliage plants.
