I worked as a clinical psychologist in the NHS for over 30 years but making sculptures and other 3D works was always a significant part of my free time - mainly as a kind of therapy for myself. When I retired I enrolled on the Foundation Degree in Contemporary Art Practice course at Shrewsbury College and Staffordshire University.
Projects undertaken for the course included a guerrilla art project on the myths and legends of Earl's Hill near Pontesbury, Shropshire where I live, and the making of a life-size wicker bull, which was the focus for a community celebration of the legend of the Roaring Bull of Bagbury, in the village of Hyssington, Powys. I also made an automaton and a video tent installation for an exhibition dealing with the legacy of the British Empire in India, and a series of sculptures and drawings inspired by the 'Crow' poems of Ted Hughes.
Since finishing the course I have made a number of works for Shropshire Wildlife Trust celebrating the otters on the river Severn and a large floating sculpture as part of a project to raise awareness of the decline in curlew populations locally and nationally. I also ran a workshop at the Merefest festival in Ellesmere where festival-goers could contribute to the construction of a giant Bog Asphodel, one of the endangered plants of the Meres and Mosses Nature Reserve.
However my current enthusiasm is for making small, figurative, ceramic sculptures, some relating to local folklore and some reflecting other interests.