ABSTRACT
Figurative sculptor in bronze, wood, cement, fibreglass, latex, ceramic and celluloid. Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he trained at St Martin's Schol of Art (1952-3) under Frank Martin and AnthonyCaroand at Camberwell School of Art (1954-7) under Karel Vogel, who shared his enthusiasm for Giorgio de Chirico. He worked in the Fiorini bronze foundry (1954-6), and as a display artist for Adel Roolstein (1956-1960). He was a visiting lecturer at Coventry College of Art, at the RCA and at the Slade School of Art (1960-82). He held his first solo exhibition at New Vision Gallery (1958) and has subsequently exhibited at other London galleries including Mayor Gallery and Bernard Jacobson Gallery. His largest works of the 1970s, evoking gardens, were frequently polychrome and flocked, and examine the rhetorical forms of formal gardens as signifiers of the anthropomorphic (such as Lady in Niche, 1973, stone and mixed media, Tate Gallery). He is a prolific printmaker, and in the 1980s made beach figures, bathers and figure compositions in bronze and in Τ Material ceramic. His first ideas for sculpture have used photographic collages. A monumental work was Head of the Stairs (2000, reinforced fibreglass), a complex angular structure evoking several flights of stairs, made up of flat surfaces bearing polychromatic graphic images.
