After an enjoyable art school education I worked at first as a stage designer and then on such animated films as Roobarb and Custard and Watership Down. It was at this time that my father became very ill and I took it upon myself to absorb as much of his woodcarving skills as I could. After he died I continued to carve, almost as a Memorial to him.

These early carvings were OK, but I was too much in his shadow. It was only when I started to draw on my own experiences as a stage designer and cartoonist that my woodcarvings started to come alive.

My middle period woodcarvings tended to be based on visual jokes but I find that now they are based on observation. The small town in which I live is full of characters that I can transform into woodcarvings. My work has proved popular, the combinations of observations and gentle humour is something that almost everyone can identify with.

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