Showing at the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer show 2022
Forged Steel
160cm width x 90cm height x 4cm depth
Forged Steel
Forged Steel
Forged Steel
Forged Steel
Fired White Clay, Steel Wire
Welded steel
122 cm height x 91 cm width x 14 cm depth
Unique
210 h x 80 x 80 cm
210 h x 80 x 80 cm
Photography by Anne Purkiss
Welded Steel
1700 mm width x 780 mm height x 300 mm deep
Photograph courtesy of Carol Wyss
670 x 110 x 140cm
Fabricated Steel, Paint
670 x 110 x 140cm
Fabricated Steel, Paint
670 x 110 x 140cm
Fabricated Steel, Paint
670 x 110 x 140cm
Fabricated Steel, Paint
670 x 110 x 140cm
Fabricated Steel, Paint
670 x 110 x 140cm
Fabricated Steel, Paint
Fabricated steel, painted
'Red Mantra' was the first of the steel garden series in which I discovered that by continuing to build up the strips of steel I could achieve new facettes, and the piece began to look like a giant abstract waffle iron.
Fabricated steel, painted
'Red Mantra' was the first of the steel garden series in which I discovered that by continuing to build up the strips of steel I could achieve new facettes, and the piece began to look like a giant abstract waffle iron.
Fabricated steel, painted
Fabricated steel, painted
Fabricated steel, painted
My steel wall sculptures were always carefully worked out on paper. I needed to take accurate measurements of the angles to be able to cut precise pieces on the cutting machine.
Fabricated steel, gilded This piece had a previous incarnation - it used to be a blue mountain. I needed space on the floor, so I welded on a couple of lugs and stuck it on the wall. Now it is white gold and much happier.
Fabricated steel, gilded This piece had a previous incarnation - it used to be a blue mountain. I needed space on the floor, so I welded on a couple of lugs and stuck it on the wall. Now it is white gold and much happier.
Wallmountain was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2012 - standing on the floor.
Wallmountain was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2012 - standing on the floor.
Fabricated stainless steel base; gilded inside; stainless steel mesh sewn on to stainless steel ropes which are anchored by a spring to a tree
The base of this piece takes its shape from the constellation of Phoenix.
Fabricated steel, painted
Stainless-steel rods, silver-soldered
Dandelions, alliums - I love these explosive flowers and seed-heads. I spent months and months making over a hundred individual stalks for just one sculpture, each with 6 or 7 shorter stalks, each of which carried 10 or 11 even shorter stems, so that I ended up cutting, grinding and assembling around 10,000 little steel stalks of the smallest size. When it was done it shimmered! It stayed in Goodwood (Cass Sculpture Foundatiion) until it was sold.
Fabricated steel, rust-proofed, painted
One of those beautifully simple ideas: three steel square hollow bars coming together, but then it gets really complicated.
Fabricated steel, rust-proofed, painted
One of those beautifully simple ideas: three steel square hollow bars coming together, but then it gets really complicated.
Fabricated steel, painted Cosmic Event has been restored to its original colour. The blue and red was an attempt to please people but it took the real meaning and therefore the power away. It is not an easy sculpture because it came out of the dynamics of a moment of full conciousness. I experienced such a moment and in this sculpture I am bringing spirit and matter together in a sort of stereo vision.
Fabricated steel, rust-proofed, painted Dolcezza Mia, got its name from a big, round, sticky red lollipop that had the title written across it. Julia Vance gave it to me as a farewell present (she is good like that) on the last day of a working stint in Italy. I made the steel sculpture shortly after that. Photograph by Clive Nicols.
Fabricated steel with Fluorescent Paint on the Reverse
Welded steel, painted
I gilded the distorted section with palladium leaf. When I made the sculpture and ground the welds flush, the steel looked gleaming and polished and I decided to recreate that appearance by gilding it.
Fabricated steel with Micaceous Paint
From my Geometry series: Objects in Space.
Green is the colour of hope - I am told. This box is full of hope, so much so that it is dragged off the wall under the weight of this hope.
Green is the colour of hope - I am told. This box is full of hope, so much so that it is dragged off the wall under the weight of this hope.
Welded steel, painted
The 'width' of this piece is flexible as there is a certain amount of play in the relationship between the two rings. This sculpture has an industrial kind of romance at its heart.
Prizewinner at the London Group Open 2015. I construct containers from angle iron that look like they've been kicked.
A suggested internal heat melts the frame. A container that cannot contain.
The clue is in the title: you are looking at a straight piece of angle steel and suddenly there is a disturbance. A moment of change - then it continues as it was.
The clue is in the title: you are looking at a straight piece of angle steel and suddenly there is a disturbance. A moment of change - then it continues as it was.
Welded steel, painted
I love the very feminine satin pink hanging under the strong matt anthracite grey.
Imagine: glittering moonlight on water. Romantic picture made from industrial steel section.
Imagine: glittering moonlight on water. Romantic picture made from industrial steel section.
Imagine: glittering moonlight on water. Romantic picture made from industrial steel section.
Welded steel, painted
I made this maquette after I made the big 'Yellow Tree'. A balancing act. The more I tilted the straight angle section the more I had to add to the streaming ribbons.
Welded steel, painted
I made this maquette after I made the big 'Yellow Tree'. A balancing act. The more I tilted the straight angle section the more I had to add to the streaming ribbons.
I made this sculpture to highlight the impossibility of capturing the awesome beauty of a sunset in a sculpture...
I made this sculpture to highlight the impossibility of capturing the awesome beauty of a sunset in a sculpture...
It's so simple - the act of opening something, yet in practice it can be extraordinarily difficult. Tear to Open hovers over the wall - it invites interpretations on different levels. It was exhibited at the RA Summer Show in 2014.
It's so simple - the act of opening something, yet in practice it can be extraordinarily difficult. Tear to Open hovers over the wall - it invites interpretations on different levels. It was exhibited at the RA Summer Show in 2014.
Partly polished, cut and welded steel
Partly polished, cut and welded steel
Welded steel, painted
Prizewinner from the National Open Art Exhibition. There is a hint of orange reflecting off the wall. I am attached to this piece - could be because I know the amount of work that went into the making. But also when I make a piece that has a good balance of strength and vulnerability for me, then I like to keep it for a while.
Welded steel, painted
Prizewinner from the National Open Art Exhibition. There is a hint of orange reflecting off the wall. I am attached to this piece - could be because I know the amount of work that went into the making. But also when I make a piece that has a good balance of strength and vulnerability for me, then I like to keep it for a while.
Fabricated steel
The steel rings are left raw and unpainted. The looped section has a glow of red behind it. The piece looks quite biblical to me, sort of 'Day Two' of the creation of the earth in the book of genesis. Strong stuff that steel.
Fabricated steel
The steel rings are left raw and unpainted. The looped section has a glow of red behind it. The piece looks quite biblical to me, sort of 'Day Two' of the creation of the earth in the book of genesis. Strong stuff that steel.
Welded steel, painted
Suspended sculpture commissioned by Leicester University for their new library. Part of creating something new is to throw away old ideas especially the ones we are most attached to because those tend to stop us from experimenting freely. This scupture makes the point by suggesting crumpled sheets of paper tossed into the air. The imagination does the rest.
The piece is made in five independent sections from different types of steel.
Fabricated steel, painted
Commissioned for Chiswick Park, the Richard Rogers development in Chiswick. I sometimes look around me and wonder by what strange coincidence I ended up being me and not the person I am next to. The steel towers and columns are tardises that suggest the infinite possibilities.
Fabricated steel, painted
A family of five stalks gathered to look upwards at the moon - perhaps.
Fabricated steel, painted
A family of five stalks gathered to look upwards at the moon - perhaps.
Part of an edition of nine discs in varying sizes each one representing a planet in the solar system.
Part of an edition of nine discs in varying sizes each one representing a planet in the solar system.
Part of an edition of nine discs in varying sizes each one representing a planet in the solar system.
