Quagga Sculpture

art and biology… my two passions! initially, it looked as if it would be really difficult to combine them, they just didn't come together. even as a small boy, i used to draw and make animal sculptures (nearly always horses). i used to love studying their shape and movement, and i just needed to understand their anatomy and the mechanics behind it all… i used to spend afternoons just watching them. this interest led me to train as a biologist, and after finishing my degree, and seeing what was going on in some of the natural history museums in europe, i knew that was what i really wanted to do. it looked difficult to begin with because i didn't know where to begin, but i just knew that i had to make it work: i wanted to create those animal sculptures and models that i had seen. i had a lot to learn and a goal to pursue. a few years have passed since then… now, every commission is a new challenge; the documentation research stage, analysing the shape and movement, selecting the appropri