SCULPTURES

I have made an occasional sculpture

The first sculpture I made out of plaster

I enjoy making sculptures, the ones on this page are inspired by looking at ancient art; the more ancient the art the more it seems to interest me. The drive to get back to our origins is deep inside all of us, and this is true for artists as well. I am looking for something that is absent from me, an important, and essential part of my being which is lost. It was lost many years before my birth, and one day I will discover it.

This is the first sculpture I made out of plaster: I put the wet plaster into a bucket, let it dry, and then carved it using a variety of files.

The first sculpture I made out of plaster: I put the wet plaster into a bucket, let it dry, and then carved it using a variety of files.

This is a family group of sculptures, standing proud, not unlike the Easter Island heads; most of them are made from discarded tin cans, painted white, and with faces painted on them in black paint. There are also a few sculptures made from wood, painted with black paint. The idea for making them came, in part, from looking at African sculptures, but also, from other sources of ancient art.

A family group of sculptures, standing proud, not unlike the Easter Island heads; most of them are made from discarded tin cans, painted white, and with faces painted on them in black paint.

Digital painting made on my computer, it represents a wooden sculpture I made.

This image is a digital painting made on my computer, it represents a wooden sculpture I made, out of discarded pieces of wood I found lying around in my art studio.

To have a feeling of aloneness, and incompleteness, and to wander through the years, testing all things bad and good in one's environment just on the off-chance this is the missing element of your nature, the thing most needful. Artists are an odd lot, never contented, always confronting the bare canvas, or sculpting out of hard rock, and demanding an explanation.

I had an idea about making sculptures from cans, once the product had been consumed out of them

I had an idea about making sculptures from cans, once the product had been consumed out of them.

First of all I washed the cans in soapy water, dried them

First of all I washed the cans in soapy water, dried them.

Painted the cans with a couple of coats of white gesso

Painted the cans with a couple of coats of white gesso.

I made this sculpture from bits of wood I had hanging around my painting studio

I made this sculpture from bits of wood I had hanging around my painting studio.

I populated my studio with many these sculptures; the more of them I made, the greater the impact on the observer.

Next I painted the cans with white oil paint

Next I painted the cans with white oil paint.

To a number of the cans I added bright colours

To a number of the cans I added bright colours.

Others remained white, until I painted human features on them

Others remained white, until I painted human features on them.

The idea was to mimic the simplified heads and body sculptures I had seen that the ancients had made

The idea was to mimic the simplified heads and body sculptures I had seen that the ancients had made.

Another sculpture made out of discarded wood, and the round tops of used cans

Another sculpture made out of discarded wood, and the round tops of used cans.

It is only when you see the can sculptures as a collective that they begin to impress

It is only when you see the can sculptures as a collective that they begin to impress.

It is possible through painting to give the heads a real emotional presence

It is possible through painting to give the heads a real emotional presence.

I find that painting on a sculpture allows you to add to its meaning, an individual and signature graffito

I find that painting on a sculpture allows you to add to its meaning, an individual and signature graffito.

This is a composite wooden sculpture, over 6 feet tall, painted, the round lids of cans attached

This is a composite wooden sculpture, over 6 feet tall, painted, the round lids of cans attached.

This sculpture is made from discarded wood found in my studio, the figures are defined using a crude black line, bold and direct

This sculpture is made from discarded wood found in my studio, the figures are defined using a crude black line, bold and direct.

Made from wood and the painted round tops of used cans, I imagined the head to be crowned with an elaborate mop of hair

Made from wood and the painted round tops of used cans, I imagined the head to be crowned with an elaborate mop of hair.

A large 6 feet sculpture, I imagined a sun disk for the head, a shield and spear ; the presence of a warrior, or a poet

A large 6 feet sculpture, I imagined a sun disk for the head, a shield and spear ; the presence of a warrior, or a poet

Wooden Sculpture: Warrior Sculpture. 181-5 cm A man from the past, the ancient world, a time of poets, hero's, and warrior queens, just like today.

Wooden Sculpture: Click on the image above to view more Sculptures. A man from the past, the ancient world, a time of poets, hero's, and warrior queens, just like today.

A sculpture made from wood I found around my Studio; the coloured tops of cans form decorative circles on board the main figure is resting on.

A sculpture made from wood I found around my Studio; the coloured tops of cans form decorative circles on the board that the main figure is resting on.