The key to successful sculpture must surely be the creation of a sense of feeling throughout. Constrained by the disciplines of steel I need to transform the material to inject life into surface and volume. I have learned from Botero the possibilities to be exploited by laterally extending the figure. I have followed Epstein and Matisse. Maillol and Rodin are my constant support. Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville are my contemporaries.

I aim to transform the tough materials to achieve a sensuous result. To this end I put my faith in a stylisation determined by material properties and the working process, a vital approach and the visible history of organic development throughout manufacture.