The Narrative
BLACKSWAN is an ode to the elegance and duality of nature — the stillness of dark water and the explosive energy held within it. The sculpture captures a moment suspended between grace and power: feathers frozen mid-motion, a body coiled between rest and flight.
To stand in its presence is to feel the tension of a life held in perfect balance — beautiful, watchful, and ready.
Technical Specifications
Title: BLACKSWAN
Year: 2024
Material: Bronze / Resin
Dimensions: 79 × 64 × 25 cm
Edition: 13 of 15
Base: Integrated Bronze or Steel Plinth
Status: Available for Acquisition
ECHO OF ICARUS (Monumental Edition)
The Narrative
The Echo of Persistence: Beyond the Myth
Echo of Icarus is a profound reflection on the human desire to transcend limitation. Moving beyond the traditional reading of the myth as a warning against hubris, this work serves as a tribute to the courage required to dream beyond boundaries. It reimagines Icarus not at the moment of his descent, but in the enduring echo of his persistence—the quiet, resilient spirit that continues to ascend in spite of the struggle.
Standing at a commanding 270 cm, the rawness of the hand-finished bronze speaks to the visceral nature of ambition, while the elongated wings embody the fragile tension between vulnerability and strength. It is a reminder that the true legacy of Icarus was not his fall, but his audacity to reach for the sun.
Technical Specifications
Title: Echo of Icarus
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 270 × 47 × 47 cm (Including Base)
Mediums: Hand-finished Bronze | Bronze Resin
Edition (Bronze): Limited Edition of 8
Edition (Bronze Resin): Limited Edition of 12
Foundation: Integrated Mild-steel Base
Placement: Designed as a commanding architectural presence for public or private estate display.
Collector Inquiry
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As a lover of classical and contemporary dance, when watching the hard work the dancers endure, The passion, pain, suffering to achieve such beauty and overwhelmingly graceful just from a little step. In the images, ' Tired Feet' is standing on a polished stone base. When I first read the statement below, I dove deeper. At the end I understood the power of to endure against all odds for your passion.
The Narrative
STOP AND FOCUS was first conceived in 2006 as a visceral defence against a world in flux. A command to the self: halt. Strip away the noise. Find what remains.
What remains is the truth of who you are.
Nineteen years later, the 110cm study has become a 220cm monumental bronze pillar — and the work has only deepened. This is a sculpture about the brutal, necessary act of removing emotion not as a denial of feeling, but as a surgical act of survival. The psychobabble of human struggle — the reckless, messy, magnificent chaos of becoming — must sometimes be silenced for progress to be possible.
The weathered patina is not decoration. It is the record of everything the work has already endured. In its commanding presence on a black granite bed, we find a hard-won peace. Focus is not the absence of feeling. It is what remains when the storm finally subsides.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition (2025)
Title: Stop and Focus (Removing Emotion)
Year: 2025
Material: Cast Bronze
Dimensions: 220 cm height
Plinth: 30 cm black granite bed
Patina: Deep weathered bronze, textured finish reflecting the passage of time
Edition: Limited edition of 10
Status: Available for private acquisition
The Archive Study (2006)
Title: Stop and Focus — Original Study
Year: 2006
Material: Cast Bronze
Dimensions: 110 × 85 × 20 cm
Edition: 10 of 12 — limited archive editions remaining
Status: Available on enquiry
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The First Pillar
NAME: OKEFO (The Great Crosser)
Derived from the concept of one who crosses great barriers or "Okenwa" (Great Son).
The Story:
OKEFO stands as the First Pillar — the archetype of the Great Crosser and founding father.
He is the African traveller who moved through the furnace of misery, weather, and loss to find a place where his people could take root. He is the witness to those who fell along the way and the guardian of those who arrived. His face, forged in the deep obsidian black of the journey, reflects the gravity of those he carries in his marrow.
His crown — vibrant with Verdigris patina — is not inherited royalty. It is earned life. The lushness of a home hard-won, grown from the scars of migration.
Okefo did not merely find a home. Through sheer force of will, he became it.
Material: Bronze with Verdigris patina and obsidian-black finish Height: 200 cm Foundation: Structural Steel Plinth
Edition: Limited
Edition of 11
Year: 2004
Status: Available on enquiry
The Narrative
The Prodigal Return: A Meditation on Origin
UPLIFTED is a meditation on return — not the triumphant kind, but the quiet, humbling kind. The figure stands tall but looks inward, carrying the specific weight of a long absence and the question that comes with it: do my roots still know me?
Drawn from the artist's own decades-long journey away from his ancestral home, the extreme elongation of the form speaks to a spirit stretched across time and distance. The downward gaze is not shame — it is consultation. A reckoning with origin.
This is not a prodigal son begging forgiveness. This is a man returning to be remembered — and discovering that the threads connecting him to where he came from never broke. They only grew longer.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition
Title: UPLIFTED
Year: 2003
Material: Hand-finished Bronze
Dimensions: 185 × 20 × 25 cm (including base)
Edition: 12
Theme: The Prodigal Journey & Ancestral Reconnection
Status: Available for Private Acquisition
The Narrative
Echo of Icarus refuses the traditional reading of the myth. This is not a cautionary tale. It is a tribute.
The work finds Icarus not at the moment of his fall, but in the enduring echo of what he dared — the quiet, persistent spirit that keeps ascending long after the struggle. The rawness of the hand-finished bronze holds that visceral quality of ambition: unpolished, honest, still reaching. The elongated wings carry the tension between vulnerability and strength without resolving it, because that tension never resolves.
The true legacy of Icarus was not that he fell. It was that he flew.
Technical Specifications
Title: Echo of Icarus
Year: 2024
Dimensions: 115 × 89 × 36 cm
Mediums: Hand-finished Bronze | Bronze Resin
Edition (Bronze): Limited Edition of 15
Edition (Bronze Resin): Limited Edition of 15
Status: Available for Interior or Exterior Acquisition
The Thread of One Blood
The Narrative
THREE GRACES is a single bronze lineage. Though they stand as three distinct forms, their silhouette is one unbroken line — grandmother, mother, daughter. The same ancient book, three chapters.
The grandmother is the root. Her bronze carries the deep patina of a thousand winters, hardened into something that no longer bends. She does not hold the weight of what follows — she has become it.
The mother stands between. She is the vital conduit, receiving the wisdom of the old and passing it forward through her own heartbeat. Every generation depends on someone willing to stand in the middle, to be both student and teacher at once.
The granddaughter reaches toward a horizon her ancestors will never see. But she does not reach alone — she is held from behind by everything they endured, every sacrifice made so that the cycle would never break.
Three forms. One line. Still standing
The Editions
The Collector’s Study
An intimate exploration of essential form and expressive gesture.
Limited Edition: 15
Dimensions: 110 x 20 x 20 cm
Medium: Bronze
Presentation: Studio-mounted for interior reflection
Created: 2003
Flight of Icarus captures the moment before myth becomes consequence — not the fall, but the preparation. The sacred test flight. Ambition still shaped by wisdom, ascent still supported by the hand that taught it.
The figure does not fly alone. The vertical form beside it carries the weight of guidance and inherited knowledge — a reminder that becoming ready is its own kind of freedom, and that the most dangerous flight is the one taken before you are.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition
Title: Flight of Icarus
Year: 2024
Material: Hand-finished Bronze
Dimensions: 170 × 27 × 27 cm (including base)
Edition: 12
Foundation: Integrated Mild-steel Base
Placement: Designed for commanding architectural or outdoor spaces.
The Gallery Edition
Title: Flight of Icarus (Gallery Study)
Year: 2024
Material: Hand-finished Bronze Resin
Dimensions: 99.5 × 34.5 × 22 cm
Edition: 15
Presentation: Studio-mounted for interior display.
The Architecture of Belonging
The Narrative
There is an architecture to the human heart built entirely from battles fought in the name of belonging. TO BE LOVED II is a meditation on that search — the willingness to sacrifice everything that is, for the possibility of what could be.
The elongated form reaches not upward in triumph, but outward in offering. This is a soul mid-ascent, vulnerable, asking to be seen. It holds the memory of the womb — that first sanctuary where we were whole without effort — and the lifelong ache to find that completeness again: in a family, in a connection that refuses to settle for less.
This is not weakness. The vulnerability required to truly reach for love, and the strength required to finally receive it, are the same thing.
The Editions
The Gallery Edition
A lyrical study in bronze resin, capturing the delicate balance of longing.
Limited Edition: 14
Dimensions: 200 x 25 x 62 cm
Medium: Hand-finished Bronze Resin
Created: April 2024
The Monumental Bronze Edition
A commanding, archival presence designed for eternal resonance.
Limited Edition: 12
Dimensions: 200 x 25 x 62 cm (305 cm total height with plinth)
Medium: Hand-finished Bronze
Foundation: Integrated Steel Plinth (105 x 25 x 30 cm)
Created: April 2024
The Narrative
In the hands of the maker, every form becomes a testament to purpose. VESSEL is a lyrical study of the human condition—not merely as a physical body, but as a sanctuary for what lies within. This work captures the delicate balance between our earthly "clay" and the celestial "treasure" we are destined to carry.
The striking contrast of the obsidian-black torso rising from a textured, emerald-Verdigris base speaks to a life refined. It is a visual representation of the act of being shaped and purified—a vessel of honour that has weathered the fires of experience to emerge with a vibrant, living grace. Standing with a quiet, monumental dignity, it invites the viewer to consider what they themselves contain and the divine breath that gives them life.
Technical Specifications
The Gallery Edition
An intimate study in form and spiritual capacity.
Title: Vessel (Gallery Edition)
Created: 2012
Medium: Hand-finished Bronze Resin
Dimensions: 95 × 27 × 27 cm
Edition: Limited Edition of 15
Presentation: Studio-mounted for interior reflection
The Artisan & The Icon: A 2003 Collaboration
The path of a sculptor is often defined by the hands that shape the clay and the voices that inspire the form. In 2003, at the vibrant Mother Studio in Hackney Wick, a pivotal collaboration began. It was here that I first met Banksy, who proposed a challenge: to bring a subversive, physical reality to his vision for a public monument.
I accepted the commission, and over the following months, "The Drinker" was born—a work that would go on to become one of the most discussed and debated pieces of street-art history.
A Shared Journey
The Commission: The project began as a conversation between two artists in a Hackney workshop, long before the sculpture became a fixture of London’s public landscape.
The Craft: Every curve and line of the work was a result of those months of dedication, translating a satirical concept into a lasting physical presence.
The Honour: To have been the hands behind such a culturally significant piece was an honours and a vital chapter in my own artistic evolution.
Flight of Icarus captures the moment before myth becomes consequence — not the fall, but the preparation. The sacred test flight. Ambition still shaped by wisdom, ascent still supported by the hand that taught it.
The figure does not fly alone. The vertical form beside it carries the weight of guidance and inherited knowledge — a reminder that becoming ready is its own kind of freedom, and that the most dangerous flight is the one taken before you are.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition
Title: Flight of Icarus
Year: 2024
Material: Hand-finished Bronze
Dimensions: 170 × 27 × 27 cm (including base)
Edition: 12
Foundation: Integrated Mild-steel Base
Placement: Designed for commanding architectural or outdoor spaces.
The Gallery Edition
Title: Flight of Icarus (Gallery Study)
Year: 2024
Material: Hand-finished Bronze Resin
Dimensions: 99.5 × 34.5 × 22 cm
Edition: 15
Presentation: Studio-mounted for interior display.
Flight of Icarus captures the moment before myth becomes consequence — not the fall, but the preparation. The sacred test flight. Ambition still shaped by wisdom, ascent still supported by the hand that taught it.
The figure does not fly alone. The vertical form beside it carries the weight of guidance and inherited knowledge — a reminder that becoming ready is its own kind of freedom, and that the most dangerous flight is the one taken before you are.
Technical Specifications
The Monumental Edition
Title: Flight of Icarus
Year: 2024
Material: Hand-finished Bronze
Dimensions: 170 × 27 × 27 cm (including base)
Edition: 12
Foundation: Integrated Mild-steel Base
Placement: Designed for commanding architectural or outdoor spaces.
The Gallery Edition
Title: Flight of Icarus (Gallery Study)
Year: 2024
Material: Hand-finished Bronze Resin
Dimensions: 99.5 × 34.5 × 22 cm
Edition: 15
Presentation: Studio-mounted for interior display.