Cloud Of Thorns

Cloud Of Thorns 04/03/2019 : Salon Vert, Carouge, Geneva This is an installation prepared in the studio for Salon Vert in Geneva. It comprises some 6000 stripped blackthorn tied to strands of nylon fishing thread. It is arranged in 12 concentric circles and can be re...

CEYLON II

CEYLON II 1 was born in Ceylon in 1948, the year of independence. Both my parents families worked in tea. My mother’s great grandfather set up Mackwoods – the famous tea growers, still producing world quality tea now. My parents left Ceylon in 1954 when I was 6 and I...

Dust to Dust

Dust to Dust Dust to Dust – 2014 A screen print in dust and ashes through a hand painted negative image of a mushroom spore print. Mushrooms can feed you, kill you or cure you. They break down dead matter back into soil in which new life grows. As such they symbolize...

Drawing on Ideas

Drawing on Ideas Royal British Society of Sculptors With William Mackerell and Simon Linington This was an open submission show which featured two sets of work based on an idea. I showed Destroying Angel Trinity and Destroying Angel Nevada. PortfolioMapping...

Invisible Traces

Invisible Traces Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland There are three works, which were commissioned for the Schlossmediale festival Mushroom Cloud – Installed into a windowless stone room in the basement of the castle, the work is 5 m. tall by 2.3 m. wide. You enter the...