a travelling circus of exhibitions in beautiful gardens this spring and summer

After the brilliant experience of showing my sculptures one weekend in 2011 in the wonderful garden of my friends at Tattenhall, Cheshire, I have asked a few other people blessed with beautiful gardens, if I could put on a similar event in their garden. Kindly and luckily they have all agreed!

The first event will be in May, exact date to be confirmed, in collaboration with my dear friend Adrienne Craddock, who will be showing her Fine Art Prints indoors, in a garden in the village of Little Hempton near Totnes in Devon.

The second event is planned for  Saturday 15th of June with a private view on the evening Friday 15th, at Chadlington near Chipping Norton, North Oxfordshire.

From here the work will travel on to Dipley Mill, Hampshire, where the gardens will be open under the open garden scheme the weekend of 20-21 July.

If you love a beautiful garden and have an interest in sculpture, then put these dates in your diary now. More information will follow!

Newton Heath canalside sculpture further developed

Perch among reeds. paper and wire maquette above, showing open structure of fish. paper maquette below giving better idea of height. We are awaiting health and safety approval from manchester city council.

Rochdale canal sculpture

I was selected, together with Kerris Casey-st.Pierre from Spiral Designs, by the Canal and River Trust for a commission of a canal-side public sculpture at Newton Heath in Manchester, back in September. The sculpture is to be "nature themed" in order to make visitors and the local community more aware of the biodiversity of the canal environment.

I decided to celebrate the wildlife that is so easily overlooked: the minibeasts and the creatures underneath the water surface.

This is a paper design of some reeds that would allow the dragonflies or fish to be raised high above the ground, and thus visible from the canal itself and out of reach. proposed height: 4m.

sadly we realised that the reeds - this close together- would make climbing up rather too easy!