My paper sculptures come of a lifelong love of experiments.
Each piece emerges from a question:
How can we make delightful new forms from simple materials?

My sculptures are freed from the squared paper and straight lines of classical origami, with curving lines and sculpted edges, and this allows me to explore a huge variety of forms, and make discoveries of my own.

Much paper art derives from a few standard folding patterns. By contrast, I aim for each design to be entirely unique, with ideas evolving through an approach that combines systematic steps with an intuitive, playful, ‘have a go’ attitude. The first stage applies geometric principles to create logical patterns: the second involves reams of exploratory sketches and physical prototypes. Both ways of working are informed by an instinct for material properties and a spirit of wonder.

My recent work aims to strike a satisfying balance between the two poles of freedom and constraint, with a growing number of sculptures beginning to reinterpret familiar decorative patterns for a modern audience, seeing them with fresh eyes.

Paper comes in many varieties, and each sculpture is best suited to a particular type:

Highly textured watercolour papers have a tactile quality which gives a sense of character and enhances the hand-crafted aesthetic:

Pure white paper catches light and shade like nothing else, and creates quiet interest in almost any setting.

At present I make many of my sculptures from Iridescent papers, whose surfaces catch the light and add a tint of colour to enhance the slightest change in angle.

Alongside my work as an artist and designer, I travel the UK and Europe as a dance teacher with ‘Shag Pile’.