There is in art no image more evocative, or richer in associative powers than the human form. The human form evokes in us a sense of ourselves, reflecting back like a mirror that slight shock of recognition – our very selves in other guise. Our own emotions and memories are touched, and we connect the art to ourselves. My own strong empathy for the female form as a work of sculpture comes from knowing how it feels to move and live within a female body. This empathy is vital to the way the female form is portrayed in my work, as a personal subject, not an external object.

New figures are not conceived externally, as drawings or models fully realized. Rather they exist inwardly, unformed, waiting to be formed. My pieces are never anything I have seen, but a merging of many things I have seen, images, histories and memories accumulated throughout my life. Intuition guides the building and shaping of a sculpture, bringing ideas forth while allowing the materials used to declare and keep their own rich natures. The demand put upon materials to hold form, and the hope that a human presence will emerge with a unique identity, is for me the fascinating part of creating sculpture about the human body.

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