About
After graduating from Goldsmiths College London, Zoe pursued a career in textiles working for large corporate companies before running her own holiday and events business. Her long-standing passion for geology led her to carving stone. Learning to carve stone felt like a natural way to express herself and the perfect link to between art and geology. Her inspiration for garden sculpture usually comes from natural forms and patterns and often from rock itself, she loves fossils and strata and also finds inspiration in her garden.
Zoe loves to draw and has found a great relationship between the charcoal stick with which she draws and the chisel with which she carves. With garden sculpture I like to carve boldly often experimenting with shape or texture in the design of sculptural forms, always referring to her drawings for inspiration. Her drawings are the foundation of much of her work. She loves the creation of chisel marks on slate and the deep textures she applies to Bath and Portland stone.
A passion for poetry and rhyme is the source of inspiration for letter cutting. She often include images and texture to convey the words selected and enhance the design and sentiment. Travel is also a design inspiration with recent trips to Morocco the south of France influencing her work as well as the beauty of the Cornish coastline and moorland where she lives.
