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Published December 2022 Following on from Together We Rise at Chichester Cathedral, a group of sculptors, all members of The Royal Society of sculptors, are exhibiting at Tremenheere Sculpture park in July 2023. My work will be inspired by the pilgrimage route which passes through the sculpture park, and especially the sacred wells which can be found along the Cornish stage of the...

Published December 2022   Studio relocation August 2022 It has been wonderful to be by the sea for 8 years, and we have moved to a beautiful Chapel in Tisbury.  It is an inspiring space with a brook nearby and is next to a public footpath through the stunning Wiltshire countryside. I am already developing a body of work about lichen and trees, and the meadow grasses...

New Zealand in the budding of Covid-19 As I flew from London to Moscow, then Moscow to Tokyo, people in Wuhan were dying.  The new Coronavirus was spreading, and the pandemic was unimaginable to me. Everywhere people were wearing masks, unsure of how to avoid the threat. My journey to New Zealand was punctuated with concerns surrounding the virus, it is a difficult time, a result of...

As the pandemic extended my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to the conditions for a virus such as this coming about. My response to the situation we find ourselves in has been to create a...

Tokyo National Museum is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is huge, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist deities, Shinto deities and portraits of people” There is room to appreciate each of...

Following the intoxicating, sublime serenity, and stimulation of Nezu, we went to Team Labs Borderless. This is a creative digital mecca, a collaboration of minds expressed in a wealth of innovative, stimulating visual feasts. It is fully immersive, saturating, fabulous and completely overwhelming. As we entered, we found a room leading to another room with projections on the walls....

Nezu is a museum and art gallery with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I visited in Japan, and I was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with a rush-like mat, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! instead, there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water plays an important role and there were...

Koi, temples and aquaponics in Japan. Recently I returned from a trip to Japan and New Zealand. It was the sort of trip that changes you and I am now creating a new body of work inspired by the experience. My daughter is working in Japan and we travelled out together from London to Tokyo via Moscow. I was excited and curious to go to a city I had heard so much about but never...