My late father collected scrap metal for a charity so there was a ready supply of material to make things with. Jumble sales were also a good supply of broken electronics, tv’s and radios, I would buy things for pennies and take them apart using a soldering iron and hand tools.

My other hobby was making plastic Airfix kits, complex and very fiddly. I always like a challenge. I drew pictures and diagrams, of machines mostly. Fantasy machines I designed in my head. I would spend hours trying to work out how to make the things I’d drawn.

After leaving school, with no qualification because of my dyslexia, I had a 30-year career as a prototype wireman making military avionics. I spent ten years working on the Urofighter Typhoon, Headup display (HUD).  It was my job to take a very complex wiring job and create drawings jigs and instructions so that less skilled workers could make the product. I apply this method in my sculpture.  First when I have an idea, I draw it then make jigs.  Measure everything at least twice!