During the Autumn, Winter and early Spring 2025/6 I am very fortunate to be invited to exhibit at the Burford Garden Company in the Cotswolds - the superb emporium of all things for houses and gardens and folk - it draws a phenomenal audience to enjoy the shops, cafes, Christmas fayre and of course, the exceptional art gallery - inside and out.

“Chasing the Curve” on slate base

Chasing the Curve” describes my pursuit of the perfect line—creating an elusive arc formed by the garment so that it feels just right in the hand and to the eye, such a line becomes a shape that flows *around* the form—pulling light across its surface, wrapping shadow into crevices, and guiding the hand instinctively.
It’s about the sculptor’s instinct: that moment when a curve isn’t just a shape, but a feeling. This piece captures that pursuit—both the physical act of sculpting and the emotional drive to find balance, grace, and flow in form.

The latest and largest version of ‘Chasing the Curve’ 2 metres in Ancaster blue stone.

You can never quite tell where the buff coloured stone will suddenly appear when you’re carving Ancaster Weatherbed!

I’ve sculpted several versions in stone and bronze with heights varying between 12 cm and 1.8 metres with each iteration refining the gesture, the tension, the release. This repetition is almost a meditative process and is part of the story. It’s not just about the final shape and depth of the garments curve and its relationship to the figures, but the journey to get there. In that sense, “Chasing the Curve” becomes a metaphor for the creative process itself: always reaching, never quite settling, always sculpting toward something just out of reach.