Sculptural overview.

Sculpture

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My initial serious involvement in art started back in 1973 when I started
actually doing some sculpture. Within a year I was working on a full
size figure that I cast in fibreglass using a fourteen piece mould. It was my
gathering interest in sculpture that induced me to go to art college.

As I got into it, I began to draw my inspiration from Rodin, for whose work I
had a passion, and whose life and committment the utmost respect. In time I
got to know the work of other sculptors who in turn fed my own involvement,
among them Michaelangelo, Brancussi, Arp and Henry Moore.

Later while in London we were tutored by David Nash, among others. Some of
us went to stay with him in Wales where I became interested in Art in the
environment, as illustrated elsewhere. It was many years before I did any more
three dimensional work, returning to my original interest in the figurative.

My sculptural interest now leans towards a mixture of elements as expressed in
the green man.