Aves speaks to flighted forest life with its angular stance and fragility. It embraces the forms of low scrub dwellers, scaled to their microcosm, and the lone rugged forms in forest tops of those who prey. Aves appears dense while being light, always aggressive and completely enlightened.

Through this work I explore nature’s aesthetic ratios; the connections and movements gestured by the ocean and its plants, animals and rock formations. Everything I capture happens in a spontaneous burst of movement as I work with ordinary steel.

There is often no way of escaping these natural forms as they materialise, often unexpectedly, back in my studio. Within my work I strive to amplify the duality of nature’s permanence and impermanence. Steel becomes a metaphor, it is affected by the elements, it bears the scars of time but can be reborn.