About Your Blacksmith

Early Days:

I grew up in cornwall by the coast, always taking things apart and making stuff, drawing, with whatever I could find. Hot glue guns and cardboard soon turned into wood and screws, old bycicle parts became kenetic sculptures, then lawnmower blades became knives. 

As I grew a relationship with iron i decided to study the material professionally in Hereford College of Arts. Here I learnt so many techniques, and in the final year and a half has free reign playing with advanced tools, power hammers, fancy welders etc. This is where I honed in on my skills and desires.

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My art and craft:

My sculptural style combines industrial and organic elements, determined by the various tools I select. My sculptural aim is to create elaborate industrial flora, and often appears to grow from a stone base, symbolising the irons metaphysical journey from the rock, through industrial means, into creative potential.

Capturing fluidity in the steel is something I enjoy practicing. It illustrates the metals characteristics within its state of plasticity; when it's glowing, it is malleable, soft like plasticine, forgiving, and nothing like the state in which we see it every day; rigid, seemingly indistructable, rock-hard. For me, capturing these curves, and free-flowing forms expresses the vulnerability which is publically unrecognised, where the true beauty of the material hides.