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On completion of my commission in Cirencester, I was asked to give a talk on where I saw my work in the context of Christian art across the centuries. My thoughts have continued since then, and have now been published in a much extended version by SLG Press.. Entitled The Road to Emmaus - a sculptor's journey through time, It is available from the publishers by emailing slgpress.co.uk (price £10).
More recently, I have been asked to produce a sculpture for my own parish church of St. Andrew. The maquette (destined to go to the church school) has been produced, and currently stands as a small sculpture at the side of the altar. It is hoped that the original request will ultimately result in a life-sized work at the entrance to the churchyard.
St. Andrew's is an unusual church, in that the church building has been shared with the Roman Catholic church of St. Cross since the 1980s. I wished to celebrate this act of ecumenism by including both St. Andrew and the Cross within the sculpture. The work began at the time Russia invaded the Ukraine, and it was significant for me that St. Andrew is a patron saint of both countries. Work on it continued during the time of Hamas's act of slaughter and the ensuing horror in Gaza. Its form and significance have been influenced by those events, and have resulted in an image of the maquette being included in a book called Poems on Conflict published by a writers' forum at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. A full description of the sculpture's meaning is described in the conclusion of my Road to Emmaus, mentioned above.
During the past year, I have written a number of articles for The Jackdaw art magazine, and a review of Charles Miller's The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse for the Fairacres Chronicle. I have also been asked to contribute a marginal note about the use of bronze in Solomon's temple for a new annotated edition of the Bible, to be published by the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity in 2026.