I studied human anatomy and started to work in a very structured way. This has become the centre of my courses and demonstrations.

In order to work successfully as a freelance sculptor in my particular field of portraiture I realized that I needed to absorb as much knowledge as I could by studying the work of sculptors past & present and try to develop personal techniques based on the classical methods to avoid back-tracking and overworking.

I spent many years at Madame Tussauds, the famous wax museum, first as a mould-maker and later as a sculptor and became Senior Sculptor at their Baker St. studio, London. I produced many waxwork figures and had sittings with numerous famous celebrities, including, Pavarotti, Shirley Maclaine, Little Richard, Michael Caine, Professor Stephen Hawkings, Morgan Freeman & Bette Midler.

I always enjoyed the historical figures and sculpting them with limited information such as paintings, old photographs and written reference. This was useful training for the work I am now most often asked to do.

I’ve had a long relationship with a Brooklyn studio. Ivan, Elliot and Debra Schwartz of StudioEIS are most excellent people and with them I’ve sculpted portraits for a number of major US institutions.

These include several portraits for The Constitution Centre, Philadelphia, among them Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, also Harry S Truman for the Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, FDR & Eleanor for the Roosevelt Foundation, Einstein for the Griffith Observatory, California and recently several portraits of George Washington for Mount Vernon.

When I originally became freelance I hadn’t thought to spend so much time working in the area of realistic portraiture, imagining myself continuing to explore my own ideas and concepts and in a variety of materials.