I go walking.

I find a leaf, a piece of driftwood - or sometimes it finds me. 

I take it home and its new life begins. 


This website is about the work that started alongside my career as a modelmaker.
I have worked for the television and film industry for over 16 years, making objects like King Arthur's chalice, cheeses for Wallace and Gromit, miniature buildings, robots and spaceships.
I have always been driven by a great love of making and working with my hands and over the years have acquired a broad knowledge of materials and techniques.
Most of my pieces are small sculptural objects often based on found natural materials. I like giving time to the inconspicuous things that surround us and often go unnoticed, paying attention to small details and the tactile quality of objects. Appropriating traditional craft techniques like weaving and crochet as a means of sculpture brings a contemplative element to the development of my work. I am interested in unusual combinations of materials, the experimentation with fragility and strength and the individual stories that evolve and shape themselves in the process of making.

I was born 1969 in Bavaria, Germany, and have lived in England since 1996 where I used to divide my time between London and Cornwall.

Since 2010 the West Penwith area of Cornwall has become my permanent home and inspiration for my work. 

 

upcoming show at

Open Studios Cornwall

25 May - 2 June 2013 

Studio 14, Trewidden Studios, Trewidden Garden, Buryas Bridge Penzance TR20 8TT

For more information on Open Studios Cornwall please go to www.creativeskills.org.uk

 

 

past exhibitions

2013      London Art Fair (Lemon Street Gallery)

2012      Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall

               The Scarlet Hotel, Mawgnan Porth, Cornwall

               Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall

               The Poly Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall 

               Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London (Columbia Road Gallery, London)

               Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London (Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall)        

               Bucca Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall

               Chapel Gallery, Gulval, Penzance 

               Cornwall Open Studios

2011      Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London (Columbia Road Gallery, London)

               'Open Studios - The Exhibition' Chapel Gallery, Gulval, Penzance

               Cornwall Open Studios 

2008      Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 

               Camberwell College of Art, London 

               Cornwall Open Studios 

2007      Kimpeskamp, Munich 

2001      'Take Flight' Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales 

1997      3 months sculpture project, Nanayakkara Garden Centre, Sri Lanka

 

press / publications

'frankie' magazine, Australia, issue 52 Mar/Apr 2013

 

HandEye Magazine online journal, January 2013

 

 

 

'Liebes Land' country lifestyle magazine, Germany, issue 9, Sept 2012