I don't call myself an artist, that is for other people to decide. I'm a painter/sculptor/muralist and in love with the process of making art. I am very diverse in my sculpture materials from wood (carved and constructed) to stone, concrete and perspex. There is nothing I like more than finding a rotten-looking log of kauri on the beach and opening it up to find a golden figure inside.

I paint in oils and apart from landscape anything goes. Love trying to find the 'essence behind the eyes' in portraiture and have recently completed 100 faces in 100 days.

Art is about 'seeing'. Often I will stand up a log for weeks and let my sub - conscious work on it until a shape forms in my mind.

Long may art live and flourish