If I do not create sculpture I am less than whole, and I have often wondered why this is. I know my sculpture is an attempt to communicate visually with others, but the creation and character of this work is also evolving over time, and perhaps its realisation helps me to stabilise my own identity in a world which sometimes seems uncaring, manipulative, and smothered in the desire for material wealth, possessions, and power. I believe that many of the basic life experiences are common to all mankind regardless of era, race or creed, and that the mother of a dying child in prehistoric times felt no less pain than a contemporary mother today. I feel this is evidenced by the existence of prehistoric 'barrows', stone markings, and signs of ancient rituals from around the world.I also believe our underlying desire to visually express our sense of hope,loss, and wonder,is as timeless as our desire to achieve spiritual peace and contentment. Within my sculpture I seek to express these common experiences. Utilising my observation and understanding of the human form and emotion combined with my own sense of 'being in this skin and behind this facial mask of tissue and bone'. Using my interpretation of the power, mass and balance of the natural landscape, and recognising the influence on my work from other sculptors including the poetic balance found in the work of the American sculptor David Smith, the arcane magic of the work of Joseph Beuys, and the philosophy of Jean Arp, I attempt to create a very personal response to the world around me. Sometimes my work may be figurative and at others abstract, but the intent and meanings overlap and support each other. Through my work my own understanding and search for spiritual and aesthetic awareness moves on.