River Pillar

"River Pillar" 2008, a commission for the Tennyson Trail on a cyclepath beside the river Witham.

It represents a stylised river with a line from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem The Brook: "For men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever" engraved over it.

Sweet chestnut.

Mobius Ring

A development of the Mobius Band as illustrated by Escher, it is a one-sided shape and occupies the eye following the continuous curves.  This was one of the first abstract sculptures I produced, I liked the flexing of the surface from convex to concave in different planes and have experimented with different dimensions and degrees of twist.  This example is of oak, 90cm tall.  2003-2006

Mobius Spiral

Another variation of the Mobius Ring, still a one-sided shape, I like the way it curves around itself without touching.  Elm, 1.2m tall, 2006

Plaited Belt

A design that I have attempted twice, I like the convex and concave curves but find it fiendishly difficult to visualise in the log.  It also has a figure-like presence.  1.3m tall, sycamore, 2005

Portal

I wanted to carve a slender arc of wood and a sculpture that I could step through; there are various folklore attributes given to trees that could be stepped through.  It also shows the pattern in the wood well and is of human-like proportions so acts as a figure in itself.  Elm, 1.5m tall, 2006