Sculpture

There are many kinds of art.  One does it as study, to explore, to discover and express, to try to get it right; and when owned by someone else it changes: to enjoy, to celebrate, to decorate, to influence. Jewellery can be a demonstration of mastery, perhaps all art can be according to some custom essay writing. 

 In the art world, to be seen as serious you have to constrain your work to a limited style, but that derives from the needs of critics and dealers. Common to my jewellery and larger sculpture is a fascination with carving, of different materials, and that, the excavation of form, is my particular limitation and continuity.  It applies in sculpture but also to drawing, both are about illusion of form, a continual exploration of its possibilities of expressiveness.  There are always the stories, the subjects, the reasons, the vehicle.

You need to find a medium which suits you, which develops by itself, with your assistance.  The lifetime of any one process depends on practicality as much as expressiveness:  jewellery-scale carving now needs better eyesight, large stones are too heavy, and obviously the fashions of what sells affects it.

 I've always loved wood, and during the 2008 have done a series of wood carvings.

 These are based on the human figure, retaining a complex surface from the carving processes.

 They complement the recent  figure drawings in their carefully contrived sketchiness, and the two processes work well together, one taking over when the other runs out of steam.

 The images in these galleries are not in chronological order, but click on an image and it should lead to a description.