This year's Solo Exhibition, hosted by Nicholas in his wonderful Eton Contemporary Fine Art Gallery along Eton High Street, includes a new direction of work for me. Most exciting are my two animal hea...
I make for the Chelsea Flower Show. Everything else that happens during the year is almost a footnote. Every year I seem to push myself a little harder, make something a little bit more ambitious and ...
The year spins around dangerously fast! Autumn arrives bringing a whirlwind of activity as I put the finishing touches on my solo exhibition. I was so fortunate years ago to have been introduced to Ni...
The Philippine Eagle. Or in Filipino, the Haring Ibon or King Bird. And it is; with a wingspan of two metres it is officially (at least according to Wikipedia) the largest extant eagle in the world. T...
Aureljia, who has done a fantastic job of handling the social media and marketing of my different social projects, 80,000 trees and Bantayan crafts etc is often reminding me to post more to my Faceboo...
I am the typecast workaholic. Ask my wife. I've recently read that workaholism is a genetic condition used as a prop to "overcome feelings of inadequacy and emotional discomfort" which is a slightly u...
I have kept a wary distance from anything that remotely resembles the human form - I have made animals in some manner or other since my early teens but never in my 30 years of craftsmanship have I ven...
For some years I have toyed with the idea of creating a Dragon, so imagine my excitement when, during my visit to Singapore in 2013 to install my cameo of three galloping thoroughbreds, Doctor Tan, CE...
My third year at the Chelsea Flower Show and by all accounts I consider myself a veteran! Seasons pass to the rhythm of the Chelsea calendar. June is reflection month - with the buzz of the previous C...
Fresh back from the Chelsea Flower Show 2013, I started work on a commission from the prestigious Gardens by the Bay of Singapore of three racing thoroughbreds. 2014 beckoned in the year of the Wooden...
David Goode, a reknowned artist famous for his quirky sculptures of Gnome baiting Elves and Goblins, has spent the better part of the last year preparing my driftwood sculpture of two rutting stags fo...
The Chelsea Flower Show 2013 has been and gone in lightning speed. From the submission of the original concept drawings last September 2012 through the preparation of stand and sculptures, to the buil...
Mid 2012 I started work on the centrepiece for my Chelsea 2013 exhibition. Always drawn to new challenges and subject matter, I was overjoyed to find a massive long dead tree, still standing, that see...
Back in March, 2013, on a blustery windswept morning, I travelled to Newcastle Upon Tyne to install the brother of the Oakley Court Rearing Stallion in Close House, an exclusive golf course 20km outsi...
Diomedes, a life sized jumping stallion, who has been stabled in Holland since last November, arrived at his new home in the Stockbridge Gallery last week on an impressively large lorry. It took 6 str...
Scouting around for information to prepare me for the Chelsea Flower Show installation, I was struck by other exhibitor's use of the word "Build" in relation to the preparation of their exhibit / gard...
I am working long hours completing sculptures that I will be exhibiting at the Animal Art Fair in Southawk London from 17 to 20 May http://www.animalartfair.com/visit-the-fair/ and the Chelsea F...
Work wise, 2011 got off to a very slow start. Just after Christmas I was admitted to hospital with a ruptured appendix and a bad case of septicaemia. It was an unpleasant experience and one which I ho...
Delivering my sculptures to destination turns into a massive ego trip. If being noticed is your "thing", try strapping a horse onto the back of your pick-up. It works every time. Young children are es...
I have had a brilliant year! In May 2010 Falle Fine Art Gallery of St Helier, Jersey, hosted a solo exhibition for me. Jersey is an island off the south coast of England (actually closer to Fran...