My interests and abilities have to do with proportion, architectural symbolism, and intense perceptions of the organic natural world and a selectivity about the potentials of its materials to be made into something poetic. At any one time when I’ve been drawing or making sculpture, I’ve found that my inner life and my emotional preoccupations just naturally show up in the work. But with a few exceptions, they’re often in forms that are metaphoric or which work by analogy, and don’t exactly butt you in the face. For me, the beauty and mystery of the work is more important than my explicit biography.

I’m a person with wide interests and appreciation, so the work may seem at first to lack a characteristic ‘signature’. But if you check, you’ll find several consistent themes of image, feeling and technique that run through the work over many years.

If you’d like to know more about how all this finds a place in my work, I’ve tried to set out a description of how it happened when I made an installation called Theme and Three Variations in 1981. You can read something about it there.