It was such a dream to work on this window display at Fred Aldous in collaboration with the National Festival of Making. I created five larger than life characters inspired by their festival programme.

Most of my work exists digitally so 3D is the perfect escape from that, turning my characters into something physical and tangible, with more of a presence. Allowing them to come to life.
It's a really nice change to make something in a more time-consuming, methodical, hands-on way.

My practice is inspired by people and things and people doing things. I try to approach everything playfully, with lots of characters. 

I don’t even think about the ears anymore, they just happen. 

I think there’s always an element of something real within my work. There’s quite often a lot of observations of real life, lots of interactions between people and things. 

Experimentation with collage taught me a lot about shape and texture, which I now translate digitally. It’s easy to forget how much you enjoy making things with your hands when it’s so convenient to make things digitally.

Everything begins with character, that’s what I’m most inspired by and what I enjoy the most. Finding ways of depicting people, exaggerating limbs and proportions but keeping those elements that make the characters mine.

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