The shaping and
use of stone is
a vital part of the human
endeavor. The fashioning of
tools and implements by stone
age peoples, the votive Venus
figures of the Neolithic period,
cycladic sculpture of the eighth
millennium BC, classical sculpture
of Greece and Egypt and all the
sculpture to the present
indicates that stone sculpture is
intrinsic to human expression.

Sculpting in stone directly
links me to the people of the
past. In my case the subject and
ideas that I choose are derived
from the past thus strengthening
that link. The resolutions of the
technical problems are the same
that sculptors in the past have
confronted and solved. Although
modern tools and implements
facilitate my work I am still
doing what all sculptors and stone
carvers have done in the past;
chipping, abrading and polishing
the stone to release the form
contained therein.

My ideas and subjects are
borrowed from antiquity with
each piece telling a story. Antiquity
provides a wealth of resources
for my work, warriors, the myths,
Venus figures, beasts, demigods
and shaman/priests are the subjects
I appropriate. In executing an
idea, the importance of light and
shadow, through the use of negative
space is a primary concern in
the work. Some pieces attempt
to stress movement, while the
god and shaman/priest series
attempts to evoke a sense of
mysticism with surface and shape
being of more importance. Each
new stone, whether it is irregular
or a rectangular cube of white
Carrara or Belgian black, tells me
what to do and even determines
how I sculpt it.