After leaving Camberwell School of Art in the late 60's I somehow got involved in the building and joinery industry, which as chance would have it, laid the foundations for a lifetime career in architectural, interior and furniture design.

The Creation Of Bronze Vessel Forms and the Alchemy of Patination :
Vessels are solid and heavy: formed using the sand-casting process. The procedure requires a solid original pattern [of which the final casting is a replica] to form a hollow impression in sand into which molten bronze is poured.

The work does not exist as any meaningful entity before it appears in bronze. Until then it is simply a casting pattern, a tool to be used in imagining the idea into a 3-dimensional reality.

The sand casting process is relentless and unforgiving – the patterns must withstand considerable abuse – the sand foundry is no place for a delicate original. It is also restrictive and, denying complexity of form, imposes a simplicity that is both disciplinary and at the same time, enriching.