2010

My artistic journey continues to evolve. I continue to be inspired and research an innovative way of representing the horse in art. At the moment - Sculpture which combines geometric shapes with curves . My sculptures often symbolically represent my life's passage, as well as portraying the horse in its own reality I have called these sculptures Horse Block Sculpture.

2009

What I can now call a career, began when I was given some Impruneta clay(terracotta), famous since Etruscan times and I tried to make something with it. The result was a bas-relief depicting a wild horse.  I continued to ‘play’ with clay and made more adventurous pieces learning by trial and error. My objective was to make sculpture of harmonious shape and a pleasure to the eye. I wanted to create beautiful horses with fine legs but I found that it was technically impossible to do.  One day I  broke the horse’s legs, head and neck of one of my fired pieces and mounted what was left on an old piece of stone. This image enlightened me and I worked on creating this type of sculpture where only a part of the horse’s legs were portrayed. These sculptures were mounted on old stone, brick and wood found in the Tuscan countryside. For me these new works captured images of my memory - what  I would remember from one glace - so if part of a leg was not portrayed it did not seem necessary.   From here my work developed. The bases of stone, old brick and wood  became rigorous blocks in clay. Developing on my previous works together with new ideas, the blocks and horses naturally merged together, first in height, then in length. These shapes developed into what I call ‘Horse Block Sculpture’  I continue to research shape and form spending time sketching and developing new ideas. I am working on compiling a book of my sketches ‘Sketches to Sculpture’

2008

I continue to work and adventure into the world of sculpture, developing new shapes and fusing horses, blocks and spheres to create what I have named Horse Block Sculptures. I am honoured to have been given full membership with the American Academy of Equine Art.
www.aaea.net/default.htm  www.aaea.net/galleries/leyland/default.htm I will be showing a sculpture for the first time at the AAEA Gallery, in the Kentucky Horse Park during the Rolex Three-Day Event in April.

I continue to work with Alan Kluckow Fine Art, London, through which gallery I have been entrusted by Lloyds TSB to make sculptures which will be on show before and during the London 2012 Equestrian Olympic Games. www.kluckow.com/artists.html

As I love colour I am also working on what I call Tuscan Panels. The colours of Tuscany. Colours inspired by its villas, walls and countryside where I make and add small bas reliefs. I have met many wonderful people in the past years. People who have given me encouragement and believed in me my work so thank you all very much.