I AM BASED IN HUDDERSFIELD IN WEST YORKSHIRE.

I LEFT SCHOOL IN 1972 AND STARTED WORKING IN OUR ONCE GREAT TEXTILE INDUSTRY AS A MAINTAINANCE ENGINEER.

AFTER 23 YEARS AND TWO REDUNDANCIES I DECIDED TO LOOK FOR OTHER WORK , THE ART WORLD HAD ALWAYS INTERESTED ME SO I THOUGHT I WOULD TRY MAKING THINGS FROM METAL USING THE SAME TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT I HAD USED IN MY ENGINEERING JOB.

 A FEW PIECES WERE MADE AND SOME CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM LATER I DECIDED TO ENTER THE HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTMAS CRAFT MARKET I WAS NERVOUS BUT HAPPY AT THE REACTION OF PEOPLE TO MY WORK, A LADY CAME TO THE STALL AND ASKED ME IF I WOULD LIIKE TO DO AN EXHIBITION IN NORTH WALES AT THE DENBIGH ARTS CENTRE AS SHE HAD NEVER SEEN SCULPTURES LIKE THIS BEFORE.

 

ALL MY SCULPTURES ARE MADE FROM SCRAP METAL, OLD TOOLS AND PIECES OF REDUNDANT MACHINERY.

I LIKE TO TAKE THAT WHICH HAS HAD A PREVIOUS LIFE THEN RECREATE IT INTO A CHARACTERFUL SCULPTURE A KIND OF METALMORPHOSIS.

 

MOST OF MY SCULPTURES ARE QUIRKY CHARACTERS INTENDED TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE, IF THIS HAPPENS I HAVE ACHEIVED ALL I SET OUT TO DO.

I LIKE TO KEEP THE ORIGINAL COMPONENTS WITHIN THE SCULPTURE IN THE HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THAT EVEN THE DISCARDED CAN HAVE BEAUTY , SHAPE AND FORM.

EXHIBITIONS TO DATE

 

DENBIGH ARTS CENTRE, NORTH WALES 1998 / 2002

RHYL ART GALLERY, NORTH WALES 1999 / 2003

THROSTLE NEST GALLERY , HALIFAX, WEST YORKSHIRE 1999

WENSLEY GALLERY , RAMSBOTTOM , LANCASHIRE 1999 / 2000

CHARACTERS ART GALLERY , BOLTON , LANCASHIRE 2000

WATCHHOUSE GALLERY , COUNTY WEXFORD EIRE ,2000 / 2001

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY OF ART , MERSEYSIDE , 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004

UCHELDRE CENTRE , ANGLESEY , NORTH WALES , 2002  / 2004

HAFOD CENTRE , LLANRWST , NORTH WALES 2002

SOUTH SQUARE GALLERY , THORNTON , WEST YORKSHIRE 2001 / 2002

CANNON HALL , CAWTHORNE PARK BARNSLEY , SOUTH YORKSHIRE 2003 / 2004

SHEFFIELD BOTANICAL GARDENS , SOUTH YORKSHIRE 2004

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

 

UCHELDRE CENTRE , ANGLESEY , NORTH WALES AUGUST 2004

 

UCHELDRE CENTRE , ANGLESEY , NORTH WALES SUMMER 2005

 

INTERNATIONAL EISTEDFODD

LLANGOLLEN

 

INVITED ARTIST FOR WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENTAL ART JULY 2002

 

PUBLIC ART

 

LOVE NEST , UCHELDRE CENTRE GARDENS , ANGLESEY , NORTH WALES

STARBURST , UCHELDRE CENTRE GARDENS ,ANGLESEY , NORTH WALES

MILLENIUM BUG , RIPLEYS MUSEUM , OCEAN BOULEVARD, BLACKPOOL

CLARISSA CRANE , HELME HALL COUNTRY HOUSE , WEST YORKSHIRE

CRUCFIX , BETHLEHEM BIBLE COLLEGE , ISRAEL

 

COMMISSIONS TO DATE

 

BRANCHING OUT , CAMBERTOWN PLC, GOLDTHORPE , SOUTH YORKSHIRE

NUMEROUS PRIVATE COMMISSIONS