Resume
1974 B.A. (Hons) in Three Dimensional Design
1975 Architectural Modelmaker
1976-78 Training as Furniture Maker
1979-86 Furniture Designer/Maker (Ireland)
1986-88 Woodworker-in-residence, Donegal Crafts Village
1989 Returned
to England, began woodcarving
1991 Exhib. Barnard Castle Gallery
1992 Exhib. Bowes Museum
1992 First Prize (Woodcarving) National Woodworker
Show, London
1992 Exhib. Grizedale Forest Gallery
1993 Richard Watson Centenary Memorial Windows
1994 Awarded
‘Best Relief Carving’, International
Woodcarvers Congress, U.S.A.
1995 Awarded ‘Best Relief Carving’, International
Woodcarvers Congress, U.S.A.
1995 Exhib. Durham Art Gallery
1996 River Wear Commissioner’s Building, Sunderland -
carving restoration
1996 Woodland Trust Commission - Hedley Hall,
Gateshead
1996 Arts
Resource Commission - Riverside,
Chester-le-
Street
1996 Green Man - Hamsterley Forest Residency - Year of
Visual Arts Commission
1996 Exhib. Durham Cathedral
1997 Exhib. Bowes Museum
1997 Groundwork Residency - Grange Villa (County
Durham Environment Award 1997)
1997 Woodland Trust Commission - Sunniside, Gateshead
1998 Groundwork Residency - Evenwood, Bishop
Auckland
1998 B.T.C.V. Commission - Ouston & Urpeth (County
Durham Environment Award 1998)
1998 Series Of Sculptures for Great Aycliffe Way - 50th
Anniversary Celebration
1998 Groundwork Residency - Cornforth Community Park
1999 Low Burton
Hall, Masham - Oak & Acorn Seat
1999 Middleton
-in-Teesdale Information Technology
Seat & Activities Board
1999 Groundwork Residency - Grange Villa (Handenhold
Pit)
1999 Forest-in-Teesdale Church - Seat and Lion
Headstone
1999 Groundwork Residency - Inkerman Heritage Site,
Tow Law
2000 ‘Aycliffe Angels’ Commemorative Sculpture
2000 Bishop Aukland Discovery Centre Sign
2000 Sunniside Community Centre - Sunflower Seat
2000 Bishop Aukland Discovery Centre Sign
2000 Groundwork Residency - Catchgate Millennium
Features
2000 Central Lancaster High School - Millennium Totem
2001 Pelton Schools - Five Millennium Time Markers
2001 North East
Civic Trust Commission - Sunderland
Eagle
2001 Groundwork Residency - Sunnybrow Village
Entrance Feature
2001 North West Leicestershire Arts Commission -
Ravenstone Millennium Gateway Arch
2001 Year of the Artist Residency - Tow Law Millennium
Green Entrance Marker
2001 Year of the Artist Residency - Cornforth Art &
Heritage Wall
2002 Groundwork Residency - Five Sculptural Stiles,
Cockfield Fell
2002 Groundwork Residency - Harelaw Village Entrance
Features
2002 ‘Tully’s Tup’ Gateway Marker
2002 Watergate Entrance Features (Co Durham Envir.
Award for Craftsmanship)
2003 ‘Beadle’s Brace’ Gateway Marker
2003 Lady’s Mantle Leaf Sculpture
2003 Haswell & Haswell Plough Entrance Seating
2003 ‘Maiden of
the Flowers’ (Lalique), Darlington
2004 Five
Sculptures for Willington Town Green
(Gateway/ Sunclock / Waste Heap / Children at
Play/ Pit Pony)
2004 Hall Croft Sculpture (‘Ewe & Eye’), Market Place,
Shepshed, Leics.
2004 ‘Olive Branch’ Seat, Cenotaph Garden, Willington
2004 ‘Seasons’
Weathervane & Wildlife Stones, Jubilee
Meadows
2005 Havannah Entrance Features, Stanley
2005 Burnhope Village Entrance Features
2005 Geological Time (3 part sculpture) for AONB
2005 Human
Sundial, High Force (AONB)
2005 ‘Twin Peaks’ Hilltop Seat, Willington
2006 Paired Stone Gateway Features, The Stripe,
Stokesley
2006 Oak Weathervane, Seat & Sculptural Entrance into
Woodland, Stokesley
2006 Castle Eden Dene ‘Teamwork’ Bench for English
Nature
2006 Bill Forth Memorial Park Entrance Feature
2006 Montalbo School Story-telling Seats
2006 Bedale High School ‘Maple Leaf Seat’
2007 Ouston School Story-Telling Seat
2007 Allensford Walk Entrance Features, Consett
2007 Jarvis
Memorial
2007 Bowes Museum - Fairy Tales workshops
2007 Evenwood Community Garden totems and seating
2007 Eccleston Memorial
2007 Boosbeck Village, Cleveland, Entrance Feature
2007 Windlestone School Totem Poles
2008 ‘The Aclet’, Bishop Auckland, Entrance Feature
2008 Wydon Water Entrance, Hexham (Environment
Agency)
2008 Murrell Seat, Durham Railway Station
2008 Peases West School ‘Totem Poles’
2008 Lanchester Roman Legionary
2008 Evenwood School Story-telling Seat
2009 St Andrew's Archways, Bishop Auckland
2009 Leishman
Memorial
2009 Stoddart
Memorial
2009 Middleton
School Totem, Teesdale
2009 Ashcroft
Park Entrance, Stanhope
2010 Tow Law
'Fan' Seat
2010 Tanfield
Lea Story Telling Seat & Stepping Stones
2010 Pont
Valley Marker Stones
2010 Eldon
Gateway
2010 Eggleston
Community Park Seating
2011 Peach
Memorial
2011 Prince
Bishop's School Sculpture
2011 Kay
Memorial
2011 Billy Row
School Seating
2011 Dent
Memorial
2011 Digby's
Hare
2012
Blue Heaps Sculptures, Consett
2012
Tully Memorial
2012
Gainford School Story-telling Seat & Benches
2012
Trinity Sculptures, Laygate, South Shields
2013
Scartop Sculptures, Barnard Castle
2013
Mulligan Memorial
2013
Catchgate School Outdoor Seating
2013
Ceramic Portrait Heads
