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Precious Beasts is an ongoing series of carved idols, loosely related to prehistoric representations of animals and magical creatures of fantasy.

These sculptures offer me the means to meditate on process, to find ways of translating a visual vernacular of familiar shapes and recognisable forms, linking our distant past to an imaginative contemporary narrative.

Although these objects are reminiscent of stone-age idols, they have become a personal quest to test new ideas and push my limits. I am tempted to say that this process is akin to ritual, in reference to the spirit of man as maker. …