"We are all familiar with graphite, starting with our first pencil.  Sooner or later we experiment, shading an area of paper until

it becomes a silvery black shape.  I've taken this universal experience and turned it into three-dimensional sculpture.

 

The use of solid graphite as a sculptural material has been seminal to my art.  It is dense, visually impenetrable and psychologically dark.  The material speaks immediately to

the eye with its jet smooth surface and silvery highlights.

My choice of architectural imagery in combination with solid

graphite has provided me with a vehicle for a narrative

statement as well as a sculptural statement.

 

Inspiration comes from two places – my love of architecture

and my reading of authors such as George Orwell

and Samuel Beckett.  Using the rich forms of architecture

and blending them with an imaginative interpretation of

literature and drama, the result becomes a unique,

timeless world.  Who lurks behind those tiny windows

and massive forms?  What are they up to?"