Childhood and youth: a keen maker of puppets and dolls, drawings, paintings and prints - mostly figurative.

Lino-print, aged 11

Training:

1974 - 76 Studied Jewellery Design at the Fachhochschule fuer Gestaltung Schwaebisch Gmuend; 1976 - 78 Qualified as Journeyman Goldsmith at the Zeichenakademie Hanau.

Brooch, 1974

1978 Settled in the UK

Principal Commissions

1997 Aumbry and light for St. Peter-at-Gowts, Lincoln.

Brass and medieval oak

1999 Aumbry for Trinity Hospital Chapel, Retford

Copper on medieval oak

2000 Frieze of the 'Banksia Genus' for the Joseph Banks Memorial, Lincoln Cathedral

Copper on wood

2001 Altar Sculpture for Diocesan Retreat House, Southwell

Copper on wood

2002 'Seraph' sculpture incorporating aumbry and light for St Laurence Convent, Southwell

(now placed at the Diocesan Retreat House, Southwell)

Copper and reclaimed oak

Postgraduate studies

2007 MA Design with distinction at Lincoln University

Awards

1998 St High's Foundation Millenium Arts Award

2006 Lincolnshire Artists' Society Tony Bartl Prize

2008 Heslam Trust's First Annual Award

2011 Lincolnshire Artists' Society Maggie Dean Prize

Interview 2013