Working out of a small workshop and forge near the Suffolk coast, John’s work is inspired by the radial patterns and symmetries found in nature; floral forms, marine life, and beyond.  He works primarily in steel and copper, forging, forming, and working with patination to produce works that live and breathe and radiate out.

John’s work grew out of several years of making, and developing a relationship with the materials he uses, letting them inform the process, and finding a language to speak with them.

John’s work is inspired by radical transformations in nature; a starfish beginning life with a bilateral symmetry like us, and then undergoing a fundamental change in its structure to become radial.  It’s a deeply personal process that makes a connection with the world and people around the artist — radiating out, one of many other lived experiences of the same landscapes, each with their own connections to it and each other.

John has been working with metal since 2017, and his work now radiates out a little further all the time. Most days he can be found in the workshop, and with his wise cat, and manager Siena.