In 2000 I did a play in San Francisco called “By the Barrow”.

A wonderful and extraordinary experience.

During the rehearsal the director found out I was a visual artist and asked me to create work for my character’s studio, she was a painter.

When I came home the director brought me to a foundry after I expressed a huge interest in learning to work with bronze.

He knew the founder and I got a tour and some black modelling wax placed into my hands.

I loved it. 

Since then I have been making work with the lost wax process.

This is a Renaissance technique that is still being used today.