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Ceramic Sculpture work collection 2024

This is work of a type I am exploring new for 2024, a direction I am very excited about pursuing. I hope you like it.

Higher Astley Green, Wigan Council,2023.

Commissioned by Wigan Council, this piece is to commemorate and highlight the importance of Chat Moss peat bog. I met with David Steel who is a passionate caretaker for Chat Moss and Susan from the Wildlife Trust who kindly showed me the moss and all its loveliness. They told me about the hares tails and the habitat of the Large Heath Butterfly, along with information about the flora and fauna. I saw a piece of bog oak over a thousand years old. The design was inspired by the biodiversity of the area which is represented by ‘Hare’s tail grass’ stylized shapes interspersed with ceramic butterflies decorated by members of the local schools and community. It measures 6ft high, by 4ft wide and 1ft deep. I was allowed to sculpt it on site at Ulley Quarry where the lads kindly flipped it over so that I could carve both sides. They did a marvellous job and it was a lovely experience going to the quarry amongst the countryside. I can’t say enough about them being so very accommodating. The sculpture is situated outside the Lancashire Mining Museum who were also very helpful and instrumental in accommodating the workshop and helping with the installation. I think the end result is lovely. I hope you think so too.

Lovely picture of the finished piece at Lancashire Mining Museum taken by Carol.

David Steel at Chat Moss near Wigan.

Flipping the stone

Carving in all weathers

carving close up

texture

first butterfly placement

edging

first fired butterflies

finished butterfly example

Susan from the wildlife trust

stone in place

final piece with butterflies in place taken by Carol

Beautiful picture by Carol in the morning sunlight.

Keadby Canal Sculpture 2022

Commission from the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire Council, and the Canal and Rivers Trust, Keadby Junction Sculpture is a public art piece where the fish applied were made by members of the community and attached to the sculpture when it was installed on site.

Keadby Junction Sculpture

Installed

Installed

Catching the sunlight

Installing (no fish yet)

Installing

Seated

How High is it? 5’4″

‘Women’s Work’ for Teignmouth TRAIL Exhibition 2018.

Original Sketch idea

Small sections ready to be added and sewn on.

Close up of work in progress

Pre assembly

The sculpture takes form

The sculpture takes form

View of ‘Women’s Work’, Teignmouth 2018

View of ‘Women’s Work’, Teignmouth 2018

On Display at Bovey Tracey

On display at Mount Pleasant gardens, Chester.

‘Hedgerow’ for Teignmouth TRAIL exhibition 2018.

Original sketch idea

View from behind with the hawthorn skirt

View from the front

Award Winning Sculpture ‘Transcription’ Teignmouth TRAIL Exhibition 2017

I designed a sculpture made from recycled car body parts inspired by an exhibition of Antony Caro sculptures I saw at Bretton Sculpture Park. I took original car body parts and made them usable, then sprayed them with classic Gulf Blue paint. After this I distressed the surface revealing the original colours beneath, let them rust a little, then they were professionally sprayed with clear protective laquer which transformed the rusted areas into areas of gold. Mounted on a natural stone base I was very pleased when it was placed in position. The excellent paint work and help in creating was done courtesy of Russell Fry.

Transcription Sculpture on display at TRAIL art exhibition at Teignmouth 2017.

Inside two mild steel bonnets polished and varnished

Inside the aluminium bonnet

Inside of the Citroen Bonnet – Aluminium

Two Smaller Bonnets sprayed and shaped

Close up of Bonnet

First Bonnet off a Citroen Re-Sprayed

Gulf Blue Paint

Body Panels for shaping

Original Drawing Design

Finished Sculpture in place. 2016

Ellistown War Memorial near Coalville, Leicestershire 2014

Addition of gold lettering and a wreath

holder

Fully Finished with Gilding and Wreath Holder

Final Image on Remembrance Ceremony

Lady Gretton, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire lays the first Wreath

Revealed

On the Reveal Day

Finally, the whole piece together assembled by Busby Monumental Masons

Another view showing the barbed wire

The end poppy takes shape

This bit of the barbed wire went like a dream

Close up of the lovely effects I am getting

Now for the front stones that support the top

I’m really happy with how this is going and its going to be done on time

Now the poppies

Concentration is intense

I brush off the residue as I go

I am really loving doing this work

Taking better shape, the stone is working beautifully

Now it starts to look something like it should

Getting the shape of it from above

Now the shaping begins

I begin cutting out the design

Progressed by drawing the design on the stone

The first cut

First block weighs nearly a ton

Peter from Ulley Quarry delivers the Rotherham Red stone

Ellistown Maquette

The inital design I submitted for the commission

Commission For Canterbury Culture Awards 2014

I made 13 trophies for different award winners one of which was Orlando Bloom from the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’​

Stoneware sculpture.

Inspired by research into poems by Ted Hughes.

Mr fox full left

Mr Fox right

Teeth!

Mr Fox from the right

Mr Fox left side

Inspired by research into poems by Ted Hughes

View 2 of Pike

View 3 of Pike inspired By Ted Hughes Poem of the same name.

Sculpture to Honor Soldiers of the Great Wars and of Today

Our Terracotta Army

Fully Finished with Gilding and Wreath Holder

Figurine Sculpture

Chuck Yaeger

Royal Doulton Prototype

Royal Doulton Protoype

Royal Doulton Prototype

Royal Doulton Prototype

Royal Doulton Pototype

Royal Doulton Prototype

Memphis Bell Pilot

Racehorse Commission

Racehorse Commission

Unicorn

Figure Study in Stoneware Paperclay

Figure study in stoneware paperclay

Close up of figure study

Mother and Baby

Mother and Baby

Mother and Baby

Nikki lifesize

Nikki

Nikki

Harlequin Juggler

Harlequin Juggler

Harlequin Juggler

Close up

Stone Sculpture

This is a Maquette I made to commemorate the poet Charles Causley, a friend of Ted Hughes, I put forwards for a commission sited in his garden.