My forms develop through drawings and often a wax maquette, looking at structure; light and shade; fluidity and balance. The work is then ready to be sculpted, the process of which inevitably changes the work once more, when my energy transfers onto the stone. I use a variety of tools - usually starting with an angle grinder to remove the majority of unwanted material and then moving onto chisels and a hammer to carve the final form and finally finishing with a mixture of machine sanding and hand polishing. It´s a physically demanding process, but also empowering and the reward of producing a 3 dimensional work of art that has come from a simple vision inside my head, is very satisfying.