Will studied sculpture at Sir John Cass and Central St Martin's art schools. He has since been working as a self-employed stone carver and letter carver. He makes stone sculpture and lettering for public art commissions, as well as working with garden designers and clients on a more domestic scale for gardens and interiors. He also teaches stone carving in schools, adult education colleges and prisons.
He works predominantly in local Jurassic limestones, which can withstand an English winter. His sculptural work is concerned with natural forms, patterns, symmetry and the unfolding of numbers in space. He tries to capture the ambiguity and ephemeral nature of life in the permanence of carved stone; he also enjoys working collaboratively with people to help them realise their own projects and ideas.
Compass Birdbath
Purbeck stone
40 x 40 x 15cm
Caithness Stone Bench
Caithness Stone
"KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON"
1000 x 40 x 45cm
Fragment
Cumbrian slate
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look on my works ye Mighty and despair!"
60 x 45cm
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